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Serotype III Streptococcus agalactiae from Bovine Milk and Human Neonatal Infections¹

John F. Bohnsack*

, April A. Whiting*, Gabriela Martinez†, Nicola Jones‡, Elisabeth E. Adderson§, Shauna Detrick*, Anne J. Blaschke-Bonkowsky*, Naiel Bisharat‡, and Marcelo Gottschalk†

Author affiliations: *University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; †Faculté de Médicine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada; ‡John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom; §St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

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Table 2

Distribution of infB alleles in serotype III GBS from different RAPD groups^a

			infB allele
RAPD group^b	Species of origin	Isolates studied	A	B	C	D	H
II	Bovine	31	1	0	0	0	30
III	Bovine	4	3	0	0	1	0
IV-A	Bovine	19	19	0	0	0	0
IV-A	Human	1	1	0	0	0	0
IV-B	Bovine	2	0	0	0	0	2
IV-C	Bovine	4	2	0	2	0	0
IV-C	Human	7	5	0	2	0	0
Ungrouped	Bovine	2	0	0	0	0	2
	Total	70	31	0	4	1	34

^aGBS, group B streptococcus.
^bRAPD group identified by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis.

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¹Presented in part at the XVth Lancefield International Symposium on Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases, October 6–11, 2002, Goa, India.

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Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Volume 10, Number 8—August 2004

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Serotype III Streptococcus agalactiae from Bovine Milk and Human Neonatal Infections¹

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Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Volume 10, Number 8—August 2004

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Serotype III Streptococcus agalactiae from Bovine Milk and Human Neonatal Infections1

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Serotype III Streptococcus agalactiae from Bovine Milk and Human Neonatal Infections¹