Molecular characterization of Streptococcus agalactiae from vaginal colonization and neonatal infections: a 4-year multicenter study in Greece

Apostolos Liakopoulos; Angeliki Mavroidi; Sofia Vourli; Maria Panopoulou; Levantia Zachariadou; Stylianos Chatzipanagiotou; Iris Spiliopoulou; Loukia Zerva; Efthymia Petinaki

doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.12.017

Molecular characterization of Streptococcus agalactiae from vaginal colonization and neonatal infections: a 4-year multicenter study in Greece

Apostolos Liakopoulos, Angeliki Mavroidi, Sofia Vourli, Maria Panopoulou, Levantia Zachariadou, Stylianos Chatzipanagiotou, Iris Spiliopoulou, Loukia Zerva, Efthymia Petinaki^*

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A multicenter collection comprising of 171 Streptococcus agalactiae isolates from pregnant women recovered between 2007 and 2010 and 46 from unmatched neonates with invasive infections was subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing and genetic characterization. High rates of erythromycin resistance (20.47%) were observed only in isolates from pregnant women. ST1 was dominant in the vaginal colonization, whereas the hypervirulent ST-17 clone was detected in 67.39% of neonatal infections.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	487-90
Number of pages	4
Journal	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Volume	78
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.12.017
Publication status	Published - Apr 2014
Externally published	Yes

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Carrier State/epidemiology
Female
Genotype
Greece/epidemiology
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Molecular Epidemiology
Molecular Typing
Pregnancy
Streptococcal Infections/epidemiology
Streptococcus agalactiae/classification
Vagina/microbiology

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Liakopoulos, A., Mavroidi, A., Vourli, S., Panopoulou, M., Zachariadou, L., Chatzipanagiotou, S., Spiliopoulou, I., Zerva, L., & Petinaki, E. (2014). Molecular characterization of Streptococcus agalactiae from vaginal colonization and neonatal infections: a 4-year multicenter study in Greece. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 78(4), 487-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.12.017

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Molecular characterization of Streptococcus agalactiae from vaginal colonization and neonatal infections: a 4-year multicenter study in Greece. / Liakopoulos, Apostolos; Mavroidi, Angeliki; Vourli, Sofia et al.
In: Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Vol. 78, No. 4, 04.2014, p. 487-90.

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