TY - JOUR AU - Plainvert, Céline AU - Hays, Constantin AU - Touak, Gérald AU - Joubrel-Guyot, Caroline AU - Dmytruk, Nicolas AU - Frigo, Amandine AU - Poyart, Claire AU - Tazi, Asmaa T1 - Multidrug-Resistant Hypervirulent Group B Streptococcus in Neonatal Invasive Infections, France, 2007–2019 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 11 SP - 2721 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We analyzed group B Streptococcus (GBS) neonatal invasive infections reported during 2007–2019 in France. The hypervirulent clonal complex (CC) 17 GBS was responsible for 66% (827/1,262) of cases. The role of CC17 GBS increased over time (p for trend = 0.0001), together with the emergence of a multidrug-resistant CC17 GBS sublineage. KW - group B Streptococcus KW - Streptococcus agalactiae KW - neonatal infections KW - hypervirulent CC17 clone KW - early-onset disease KW - late-onset disease KW - bacteria KW - France KW - GBS KW - antimicrobial resistance DO - 10.3201/eid2611.201669 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/11/20-1669_article ER - End of Reference