Genomic analysis of maternal carriage of group B Streptococcus and transmission routes of neonatal sepsis

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• ² Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Institute for Translational Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China.
• ³ Molecular Infectious Disease Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• ⁴ Genomic Medicine Core Laboratory, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• ⁵ Taiwan Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ⁶ Department of Parasitology, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• ⁷ Molecular Infectious Disease Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, No. 5, Fu-Hsin Street, Kweishan 333, Taoyuan, Taiwan. Electronic address: chchiu@adm.cgmh.org.tw.