Genetic diversity and antimicrobial resistance in group B streptococcus colonizing young, nonpregnant women

Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Aug 1;47(3):388-90. doi: 10.1086/589864.

Abstract

The genetic diversity of group B Streptococcus in young, nonpregnant women is not well studied. Application of multilocus sequence analysis to 85 group B Streptococcus strains recovered from college students revealed similarities and differences in distribution of group B Streptococcus lineages, compared with that of previously studied pregnant populations, and revealed that strains of 1 clone were associated with antibiotic resistance.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Carrier State / epidemiology
  • Carrier State / microbiology
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / genetics*
  • Female
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Michigan / epidemiology
  • Prevalence
  • Rectum / microbiology
  • Streptococcus agalactiae / classification
  • Streptococcus agalactiae / drug effects*
  • Streptococcus agalactiae / genetics*
  • Vagina / microbiology
  • White People