| Literature DB >> 17881554 |
E R Martins1, C Florindo, F Martins, I Aldir, M J Borrego, L Brum, M Ramirez, J Melo-Cristino.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17881554 PMCID: PMC2168519 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01358-07
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948