TY - JOUR AU - Poyart, Claire AU - Réglier-Poupet, Hélène AU - Tazi, Asmaa AU - Billoët, Annick AU - Dmytruk, Nicolas AU - Bidet, Philippe AU - Bingen, Edouard AU - Raymond, Josette AU - Trieu-Cuot, Patrick T1 - Invasive Group B Streptococcal Infections in Infants, France T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2008 VL - 14 IS - 10 SP - 1647 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Clinical features and molecular characterization of 109 group B streptococci causing neonatal invasive infections were determined over an 18-month period in France. Sixty-four percent of the strains were from late-onset infections, and 75% were capsular type III. The hypervirulent clone ST-17 was recovered in 80% of meningitis cases. KW - Streptococcus agalactiae KW - GBS KW - invasive infections KW - meningitis KW - ST-17 KW - dispatch KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid1410.080185 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/10/08-0185_article ER - End of Reference