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SUBMITTER: Da Cunha V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4538795 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20140804
Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus, GBS) is a commensal of the digestive and genitourinary tracts of humans that emerged as the leading cause of bacterial neonatal infections in Europe and North America during the 1960s. Due to the lack of epidemiological and genomic data, the reasons for this emergence are unknown. Here we show by comparative genome analysis and phylogenetic reconstruction of 229 isolates that the rise of human GBS infections corresponds to the selection and worldw ...[more]