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SUBMITTER: Tickler IA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6440789 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20190328 4
Surveillance of circulating microbial populations is critical for monitoring the performance of a molecular diagnostic test. In this study, we characterized 31 isolates of <i>Streptococcus agalactiae</i> (group B <i>Streptococcus</i> [GBS]) from several geographic locations in the United States and Ireland that contain deletions in or adjacent to the region of the chromosome that encodes the hemolysin gene <i>cfb</i>, the region targeted by the Xpert GBS and GBS LB assays. PCR-negative, culture- ...[more]