Volume 10, Number 8—August 2004
Research
Serotype III Streptococcus agalactiae from Bovine Milk and Human Neonatal Infections1
Table 2
Distribution of infB alleles in serotype III GBS from different RAPD groupsa
infB allele |
|||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RAPD groupb | 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 |
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 |
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.
1Presented in part at the XVth Lancefield International Symposium on Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases, October 6–11, 2002, Goa, India.