Analysis of group B streptococcal types associated with disease in human infants and adults
| Autor: | H W Wilkinson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1978 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Microbiology (medical) Serotype medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Adolescent Disease medicine.disease_cause Group B Streptococcus agalactiae Sepsis Streptococcal Infections Epidemiology medicine Humans Meningitis Typing Serotyping Aged Cerebrospinal Fluid business.industry Age Factors Infant Newborn Infant Middle Aged medicine.disease United States Blood Female business Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 7:176-179 |
| ISSN: | 1098-660X 0095-1137 |
| Popis: | It is important to resolve existing differences of opinion regarding group B streptococcal type distribution in human disease because of the relevance of type prevalence to future programs of prevention. This report compares data obtained from typing 392 group B streptococci isolated from systemic infections in both infants and adults in the United States from 1972 through 1975. The data showed a substantial predominance of type III among strains isolated from cases of infant meningitis and from "late-onset" septicemia but did not confirm a prior report that type Ia causes most cases of "early-onset" infant septicemia. Type II was the predominant serotype among 11 cerebrospinal fluid isolates from adults. The fact that over one-fourth of the isolates were types other than Ia or III means that future epidemiological studies, including definition of immunological factors, must include all five group B types. |
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