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Volume 10, Number 8—August 2004

Research

Serotype III Streptococcus agalactiae from Bovine Milk and Human Neonatal Infections1

John F. Bohnsack*Comments to Author , 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 1

Characteristics of human serotype III GBS lineagesa
Inserted sequence sitesb
RDP typec infB alleled AW-10 hylB scpb-lmb STe
III-1
 A
 No insert
 No insert
 No insert
 23, 25
III-2
 A
 No insert
 IS1548
 IS1548
 19, 21
III-3
 C
 GBSi1
 No insert
 GBSi1
 17, 29
III-4 A No insert No insert GBSi1 1

aGBS, group B streptococcus.
bThe presence of inserted sequences is determined at the three chromosomal locations (see Methods).
cRDP type refers to phylogenetic lineages originally defined by analysis of restriction digest patterns of chromosomal DNA.
dinfB is the highly conserved gene encoding initiation-translation factor IF2.
eST refers to the isolates’ sequence type, based on the alleles of seven housekeeping genes identified by multilocus sequence typing.

Main Article

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

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