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Increasing macrolide resistance among Streptococcus agalactiae causing invasive disease in non-pregnant adults was driven by a single capsular-transformed lineage, Portugal, 2009 to 2015

We characterised Lancefield group B streptococcal (GBS) isolates causing invasive disease among non-pregnant adults in Portugal between 2009 and 2015. All isolates (n = 555) were serotyped, assigned to clonal complexes (CCs) by multilocus sequence typing and characterised by surface protein and pilu...

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Autores principales: Lopes, Elísia, Fernandes, Tânia, Machado, Miguel P, Carriço, João André, Melo-Cristino, José, Ramirez, Mário, Martins, Elisabete R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6152215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29845930
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.21.1700473