Volume 22, Number 12—December 2016
Research
Streptococcus agalactiae Serotype IV in Humans and Cattle, Northern Europe1
Ulrike Lyhs2, Laura Kulkas, Jørgen Katholm3, Karin Persson Waller, Kerttu Saha, Richard J. Tomusk, and Ruth N. Zadoks
Table
Streptococcus agalactiae isolates from humans and cattle, Finland and Sweden, 2010–2013*
| Molecular serotype | No. isolates from humans/cattle |
No. isolates from humans only |
No. isolates from cattle only |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST1 | ST8 | ST12 | ST23 | ST196 | Other | ST17 | ST19 | ST28 | ST144 | ST10 | ST103 | ST314 | ST633 | ST726 | |||
| Ia | 1/0 | – | – | 7/2 | – | 1/3 | – | – | – | 6 | – | 10 | 3 | 3 | – | ||
| Ib | – | 4/3 | – | – | – | 1/0 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||
| II | 1/0 | – | 10/1 | – | – | 2/1 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | ||
| III | – | – | – | 0/2 | – | 1/4 | 4 | 13 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| IV | – | – | – | – | 4/8 | 2/1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | ||
| V | 18/19 | – | – | – | – | 1/4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Other | 1/1 | – | – | 0/1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||
*ST, sequence type; –, no isolates.
1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the 25th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases; April 24–28, 2015; Copenhagen, Denmark.
2Current affiliation: Danish Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark.
3Current affiliation: DNA Diagnostic A/S, Risskov, Denmark.
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