Genetic diversity and antimicrobial resistance in group B streptococcus colonizing young, nonpregnant women.

Manning, Shannon D; Schaeffer, Katherine E; Springman, A Cody; Lehotzky, Erica; Lewis, Maggi A; Ouellette, Lindsey M; Wu, Guangxi; Moorer, Glynda M et al. · Clin Infect Dis · 2008

cross_sectional · Level IV

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Abstract

The genetic diversity of group B Streptococcus in young, nonpregnant women is not well studied. Application of multilocus sequence analysis to 85 group B Streptococcus strains recovered from college students revealed similarities and differences in distribution of group B Streptococcus lineages, compared with that of previously studied pregnant populations, and revealed that strains of 1 clone were associated with antibiotic resistance.

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