Streptococcus agalactiae Serotype Ib as an Agent of Meningitis in Two Adult Nonpregnant Women
- 1 November 2007
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 45 (11) , 3850-3852
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.01358-07
Abstract
Two temporally and geographically clustered cases of meningitis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae expressing the infrequent Ib serotype are reported. Characterization by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing revealed that the isolates were identical and represented the widely distributed ST10/ST8 lineage associated with serotype Ib.Keywords
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