Invasive neonatal GBS infections from an area-based surveillance study in Italy

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1834-1839

  Imperi, M ^a   Gherardi, G ^b   Berardi, A ^c   Baldassarri, L ^a   Pataracchia, M ^a   Dicuonzo, G ^b   Orefici, G ^a   Creti, R ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpha like protein family; Antibiotic resistance; Group B streptococcus; MLST; Molecular epidemiology; Neonatal infection; PFGE; S. agalactiae; Serotype

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; ITALY; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE;

STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 81255171256     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03479.x     Document Type: Article

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