TY - JOUR AU - Ip, Margaret AU - Ang, Irene AU - Fung, Kitty AU - Liyanapathirana, Veranja AU - Luo, Ming Jing AU - Lai, Raymond T1 - Hypervirulent Clone of Group B Streptococcus Serotype III Sequence Type 283, Hong Kong, 1993–2012 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2016 VL - 22 IS - 10 SP - 1800 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We describe a hypervirulent clone of group B Streptococcus serotype III, subtype 4, sequence type 283, that caused invasive disease with a predilection for meningitis in Hong Kong during 1993–2012. The organism is associated with high mortality and increased summer prevalence and is linked to diseased fish from freshwater fish farms. KW - Group B Streptococcus KW - serotype III-4/ST283 KW - newborns KW - hypervirulent KW - clone KW - meningitis KW - fish disease KW - zoonoses KW - Hong Kong KW - bacteria KW - serotype III-4 KW - ST283 DO - 10.3201/eid2210.151436 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/10/15-1436_article ER - End of Reference