Volume 14, Number 10—October 2008
Dispatch
Invasive Group B Streptococcal Infections in Infants, France
Claire Poyart
, Hélène Réglier-Poupet, Asmaa Tazi, Annick Billoët, Nicolas Dmytruk, Philippe Bidet, Edouard Bingen, Josette Raymond, and Patrick Trieu-Cuot
, Hélène Réglier-Poupet, Asmaa Tazi, Annick Billoët, Nicolas Dmytruk, Philippe Bidet, Edouard Bingen, Josette Raymond, and Patrick Trieu-CuotTable
Characterization of the 109 GBS strains isolated from neonatal invasive infections, France, 2006–2007*
| Origin of strains (no. isolates) | CPS (no. isolates) |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ia (16) | Ib (7) | II (1) | III (82) | V (3) | ST-17 (75) | ||
| EOD <7 d (39) | |||||||
| Sepsis (28) | 9 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 13 | |
| Meningitis (11) |
2 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
9 |
|
| LOD >7 d (70) | |||||||
| Sepsis (19) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 13 | |
| Meningitis (46) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 37 | |
| Other† (5) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |
*GBS, group B Streptococcus; CPS, capsular serotype; EOD, early-onset disease; LOD, late-onset disease.
†Sepsis was associated with 2 cases of parotitis, 1 case of osteomyelitis, 1 of spondylodiscitis, and 1 of orchitis.
