… A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) system was developed for group B streptococcus (GBS). …
and sequenced. The combination of alleles at the seven loci provided an allelic profile or …

… A total of 200 isolates were sequence type (ST) 1 and an additional 10 isolates were
single-loci variants that we will consider ST-1 for the purposes of this manuscript (Materials and …

… Group B streptococcus (GBS; Streptococcus agalactiae) is the most common cause of … We
designed sequencing primers based on the previously published sequences of the capsular …

Over a 35-month period, group B Streptococcus isolates with reduced penicillin
susceptibility (PRGBS) were detected from elderly patients at a regional hospital in Japan, …

… Twenty-three isolates were found to belong to the sequence type 1 (ST1) group (11 ST458,
7 ST1, 3 ST297, 1 ST358 and 1 ST4), while the remaining 5 isolates formed the ST23 group. …

… 21 profile groups, while MLST analysis divided the isolates into 16 sequence types. Forty-…
gene were in PFGE profile group 4; 41 of these 42 were sequence type 1 by MLST. These data …

… The sequence of each locus was then … sequence type (ST) for each isolate. The genetic
relatedness of the strains was then assessed by cluster analysis with the unweighted pair group …

… Unweighted pair-group method of arithmetic means (UPGMA) tree showing genetic relationships
between 60 sequence types (STs) of group B Streptococcus, isolated from patients with …

… In this study we utilized a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme, an unambiguous
sequence-based typing method, to characterize the invasive isolates collected from northern …

… Here, we describe the cloning and sequencing of nine additional adjacent genes, cps III …
Group B streptococci (GBS) (Streptococcus agalactiae) are the leading cause of serious …