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SUBMITTER: Sapugahawatte DN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9029214 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sapugahawatte Dulmini Nanayakkara DN Li Carmen C Liyanapathirana Veranja V Kandauda Chaminda C Gihan Champika C Zhu Chendi C Lo Norman Wai Sing NWS Wong Kam Tak KT Ip Margaret M
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20220323 4
We investigated the molecular epidemiology of <i>Streptococcus agalactiae</i> (Group B <i>Streptococcus</i>, GBS) from carriage in a cohort of pregnant mothers and their respective newborns in a Teaching Hospital in Sri Lanka. GBS vaginal carriage was assessed on pregnant mothers at pre-delivery (<i>n</i> = 250), post-delivery (<i>n</i> = 130), and from peri-rectal swabs of neonates (<i>n</i> = 159) in a prospective study. All colonizing, non-duplicate GBS isolates (<i>n</i> = 60) were analyzed ...[more]