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Volume 22, Number 11—November 2016
Dispatch

Capsular Switching and Other Large-Scale Recombination Events in Invasive Sequence Type 1 Group B Streptococcus

Alefiya Neemuchwala, Sarah Teatero, Taryn B.T. Athey, Allison McGeer, and Nahuel FittipaldiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (A. Neemuchwala, S. Teatero, T.B.T. Athey, N. Fittipaldi); Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto (A. McGeer); University of Toronto, Toronto (A. McGeer, N. Fittipaldi)

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Table

Characteristics of 8 non–serotype V sequence type 1 group B Streptococcus isolates collected by the Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network, Ontario, Canada, 2009–2015*

Strain name
 Serotype
 Year isolated
 Age group of patient
 Source
 SRA accession no.
NGBS217 Ib 2011 0–6 d Blood SRR3030375
NGBS748 II 2010 7–89 d Blood SRR3030378
NGBS814 II 2011 >60 y Blood SRR3030379
NGBS1098 IV 2012 7–89 d Blood SRR3030380
NGBS209 VI 2011 >60 y Blood SRR3030374
NGBS537 VI 2012 19–59 y Blood SRR3030376
NGBS015 VII 2009 >60 y Blood SRR3030373
NGBS621 VIII 2012 19–59 y Blood SRR3030377

*Sequence types as determined by multilocus sequence typing. SRA, Sequence Read Archive.

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