Serotype distribution and invasive potential of group B streptococcus isolates causing disease in infants and colonizing maternal-newborn dyads

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Madzivhandila, Mashudu ^a   Adrian, Peter V ^a   Cutland, Clare L ^a   Kuwanda, Locadiah ^a   Schrag, Stephanie J ^b   Madhi, Shabir A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPE; SKIN CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA SMEAR; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PREGNANCY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 79952839622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017861     Document Type: Article

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