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Volume 22, Number 10—October 2016
Dispatch

Hypervirulent Clone of Group B Streptococcus Serotype III Sequence Type 283, Hong Kong, 1993–2012

Margaret IpComments to Author , Irene Ang, Kitty Fung, Veranja Liyanapathirana, Ming Jing Luo, and Raymond Lai
Author affiliations: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; and Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong

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Figure 1

Dendrogram analysis of SmaI-digested pulsed-field gel electrophoresis fingerprints of 58 isolates of group B Streptococcus (GBS), serotype III, subtype 4 (fingerprints highlighted in red box and bracket) and of 324 randomly selected GBS isolates of different serotypes, Hong Kong, 1993–2012. The dotted vertical line on the serotype column delineates the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis clustering at 90% similarity, determined by analysis by dice coefficient with 1% tolerance and by the unweighted

Figure 1. Dendrogram analysis of SmaI-digested pulsed-field gel electrophoresis fingerprints of 58 isolates of group B Streptococcus (GBS), serotype III, subtype 4 (fingerprints highlighted in red box and bracket) and of 324 randomly selected GBS isolates of different serotypes, Hong Kong, 1993–2012. The dotted vertical line on the serotype column delineates the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis clustering at 90% similarity, determined by analysis by dice coefficient with 1% tolerance and by the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (BioNumerics version 7.0; Applied Maths, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium). On the source column, solid black indicates that the GBS strain was isolated from invasive sites; solid gray indicates that the strain was from noninvasive sites.

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