Genotyping of Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococci) isolated from vaginal and rectal swabs of women at 35-37 weeks of pregnancy

El Aila, Nabil Abdullah; Tency, Inge; Claeys, Geert; Saerens, Bart; De Backer, Ellen; Temmerman, Marleen; Verhelst, Rita; Vaneechoutte, Mario

doi:10.1186/1471-2334-9-153

Genotyping of Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococci) isolated from vaginal and rectal swabs of women at 35-37 weeks of pregnancy

Author:

El Aila, Nabil Abdullah

Tency, Inge ; Claeys, Geert ; Saerens, Bart ; De Backer, Ellen ; Temmerman, Marleen ; Verhelst, Rita ; Vaneechoutte, Mario

Keywords:

Bacterial Typing Techniques, Carrier State, Culture Media, DNA Fingerprinting, DNA, Bacterial, Female, Genotype, Humans, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Pregnancy, Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique, Rectum, Sensitivity and Specificity, Streptococcal Infections, Streptococcus agalactiae, Vagina, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Infectious Diseases, INVASIVE NEONATAL DISEASE, GENETIC DIVERSITY, POPULATION-STRUCTURE, RISK-FACTORS, COLONIZATION, STRAINS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, IDENTIFICATION, INFECTIONS, SEROTYPES, 0605 Microbiology, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1108 Medical Microbiology, Microbiology, 3202 Clinical sciences, 3207 Medical microbiology, 4206 Public health

Abstract:

Group B streptococci (GBS), or Streptococcus agalactiae, are the leading bacterial cause of meningitis and bacterial sepsis in newborns. Here we compared different culture media for GBS detection and we compared the occurrence of different genotypes and serotypes of GBS isolates from the vagina and rectum.