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From: Associations between nasopharyngeal carriage of Group B Streptococcus and other respiratory pathogens during early infancy

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Algorithm for recruitment and sample processing flow. + 1200 infants aged 2 months of consenting mothers were recruited for the study; however 1170 (97.5 %) had complete data for analysis. † 162 GBS isolates were recovered in the study, however 133 (82 %) were successfully revived for serotyping. * 21 GBS isolates were non-typeable (NT) by the latex agglutination method and were subjected to the conventional Polymerase Chain Reaction serotyping method. In addition, 20 isolates typed by the latex agglutination method (15 %) were confirmed by PCR

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BMC Microbiology

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