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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 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.

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

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