Lee WT, Lai MC. High prevalence of Streptococcus agalactiae from vaginas of women in Taiwan and its mechanisms of macrolide and quinolone resistance. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2014; pii: S1684-1182(14)00055-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jmii.2014.03.002.
Mata AI, Gibello A, Casamayor A, Blanco MM, Domínguez L, Fernández-Garayzábal JF. Multiplex PCR assay for detection of bacterial pathogens associated with warm-water streptococcosis in fish. App Environ Microbiol. 2004;70:3183–7.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Poyart C, Tazi A, Reglier-Poupet H, Billoët A, Tavares N, Raymond J, et al. Multiplex PCR assay for rapid and accurate capsular typing of group B Streptococci. J Clin Microbiol. 2007;45:1985–8.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Imperi M, Pataracchia M, Alfarone G, Baldassarri L, Orefici G, Creti R. A multiplex PCR assay for the direct identification of the capsular type (Ia to IX) of Streptococcus agalactiae. J Microbiol Meth. 2010;80:212–4.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Eldar A, Ghittino C, Asanta L, Bozzetta E, Goria M, Prearo M, et al. Enterococcus seriolicida is a junior synonym of Lactococcus garvieae, a causative agent of septicemia and meningoencephalitis in fish. Curr Microbiol. 1996;32:85–8.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kang SH, Shin GW, Shin YS, Palaksha KJ, Kim YR, Yang HH, et al. Experimental evaluation of pathogenicity of Lactococcus garvieae in black rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli). J Vet Sci. 2004;5:387–90.
PubMed
Google Scholar
Hoshina T, Sano T, Morimoto Y. A streeptococcus pathogenic to fish. J Tokyo Univ Fish. 1958;44:57–68.
Google Scholar
Eldar A, Bejerano Y, Livoff A, Horovitcz A, Bercovier H. Experimental streptococcal meningo-encephalitis in cultured fish. Vet Microbiol. 1995;43:33–40.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Chen SC, Liaw LL, Su HY, Ko SC, Wu CY, Chaung HC, et al. Lactococcus garvieae, a cause of disease in grey mullet, Mugil cephalus L., in Taiwan. J Fish Dis. 2002;25:727–32.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Kusuda R, Kawai K, Salati F, Banner CR, Fryer JL. Enterococcus seriolicida sp. nov., a fish pathogen. Int J Syst Bacteriol. 1991;41:406–9.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Nho SW, Shin GW, Park SB, Jang HB, Cha IS, Ha MA, et al. Phenotypic characteristics of Streptococcus iniae and Streptococcus parauberis isolated from olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2009;293:20–7.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Shewmaker PL, Camus AC, Bailiff T, Steigerwalt AG, Morey RE, Carvalho MG. Streptococcus ictaluri sp. nov., isolated from channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus broodstock. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2007;57:1603–6.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Buchanan JT, Colvin KM, Vicknair MR, Patel SK, Timmer AM, Nizet V. Strain-associated virulence factors of Streptococcus iniae in hybrid-striped bass. Vet Microbiol. 2008;131:145–53.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kawanishi M, Kojima A, Ishihara K, Esaki H, Kijima M, Takahashi T, et al. Drug resistance and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns of Lactococcus garvieae isolates from cultured Seriola (yellowtail, amberjack and kingfish) in Japan. Lett App Microbiol. 2005;40:322–8.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Hung SW, Wang SL, Tu CY, Tsai YC, Chuang ST, Shieh MT, et al. Antibiotic susceptibility and prevalence of erythromycin ribosomal methylase gene, erm(B) in Streptococcus spp. Vet J. 2008;176:197–204.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Florindo C, Viegas S, Paulino A, Rodrigues E, Gomes JP, Borrego MJ. Molecular characterization and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles in Streptococcus agalactiae colonizing strains: association of erythromycin resistance with subtype III-1 genetic clone family. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2010;46:1458–63.
Article
Google Scholar
Janapatla RP, Ho YR, Yan JJ, Wu HM, Wu JJ. The prevalence of erythromycin resistance in group B streptococcal isolates at a university hospital in Taiwan. Microb Drug Resist. 2008;14:293–7.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kayansamruaj P, Pirarat N, Katagiri T, Hirono I, Rodkhum C. Molecular characterization and virulence gene profiling of pathogenic Streptococcus agalactiae populations from tilapia (Oreochromis sp.) farms in Thailand. J Vet Diagn Invest. 2014;19(26):488–95.
Article
Google Scholar
van der Mee-Marquet N, Domelier AS, Salloum M, Violette J, Arnault L, Gaillard N, et al. Molecular characterization of temporally and geographically matched Streptococcus agalactiae strains isolated from food products and bloodstream infections. Foodborne Path Dis. 2009;6:1177–83.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Bowater RO, Forbes-Faulkner J, Anderson IG, Condon K, Robinson B, Kong F, et al. Natural outbreak of Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) infection in wild giant Queensland grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus (Bloch), and other wild fish in northern Queensland. Australia J Fish Dis. 2012;35:173–86.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Banai M, LeBlanc DJ. Genetic, molecular, and functional analysis of Streptococcus faecalis R plasmid pJH1. J Bacteriol. 1983;155:1094–104.
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Christie PJ, Dunny GM. Identification of regions of the Streptococcus faecalis plasmid pCF-10 that encode antibiotic resistance and pheromone response functions. Plasmid. 1986;15:230–41.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Sedgley CM, Lee EH, Martin MJ, Flannagan SE. Antibiotic resistance gene transfer between Streptococcus gordonii and Enterococcus faecalis in root canals of teeth Ex Vivo. J Endod. 2008;34:570–4.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Mian GF, Godoy DT, Leal CA, Yuhara TY, Costa GM, Figueiredo HC. Aspects of the natural history and virulence of S. agalactiae infection in Nile tilapia. Vet Microbiol. 2009;136:180–3.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kayansamruaj P, Pirarat N, Hirono I, Rodkhum C. Increasing of temperature induces pathogenicity of Streptococcus agalactiae and the up-regulation of inflammatory related genes in infected Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Vet Microbiol. 2014;172:265–71.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Wang YH, Su LH, Hou JN, Yang TH, Lin TY, Chu C, Chiu CH. Group B streptococcal disease in nonpregnant patients: emergence of highly resistant strains of serotype Ib in Taiwan in 2006 to 2008. J Clin Microbiol. 2010;48:2571–4.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Wang YH, Chen CL, Hou JN, Wang YR, Lin TY, Wang MH, et al. Serotype distribution and resistance genes associated with macrolide and fluoroquinolone resistance in Streptococcus agalactiae isolates from a hospital in Southern Taiwan. Biomed J. 2015;38:215–20.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Liu G, Zhang W, Lu C. Comparative genomics analysis of Streptococcus agalactiae reveals that isolates from cultured tilapia in China are closely related to the human strain A909. BMC Genomics. 2013;14:775.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Chiu SY. Molecular typing and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Streptococcus-like bacteria isolated. Chiayi, Taiwan: Department of Veterinary Medicine National Chiayi University Master Thesis; 2008. p. 1–89.
Clinical and laboratory Standerds Institute. Performance standards for antimicrobia disk susceptibility tests; approved standard-eleventh edtion. CLSI document: MO2-A11. Wayne Pennsylvania 19087, USA: Clinical and laboratory standards institute; 2012.
Kado CI, Liu ST. Rapid procedure for detection and isolation of large and small plasmids. J Bact. 1981;145:1365–3.
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Tenover FC, Arbeit RD, Goering RV, Mickelsen PA, Murray BE, Persing DH, Swaminathan B. Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing. J Clin Microbiol. 1995;33:2233–9.
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Jones N, Bohnsack JF, Takahashi S, Oliver KA, Chan MS, Kunst F, et al. Multilocus sequence typing system for group B streptococcus. J Clin Microbiol. 2003;41:2530–6.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Elliott J, Facklam RR, Richter CB. Whole-cell protein patterns of nonhemolytic group B, type Ib, Streptococci isolated from humans, mice, cattle, frogs, and fish. J Clin Microbiol. 1990;28:628–30.
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Evans JJ, Bohnsack JF, Klesius PH, Whiting AA, Garcia JC, Shoemaker CA, et al. Phylogenetic relationships among Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from piscine, dolphin, bovine and human sources: a dolphin and piscine lineage associated with a fish epidemic in Kuwait is also associated with human neonatal infections in Japan. J Med Microbiol. 2008;57:1369–76.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Sukhnanand S, Dogan B, Ayodele MO, Zadoks RN, Craver MP, Dumas NB, et al. Molecular subtyping and characterization of bovine and human Streptococcus agalactiae isolates. J Clin Microbiol. 2005;43:1177–86.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Delannoy CM, Crumlish M, Fontaine MC, Pollock J, Foster G, Dagleish MP, et al. Human Streptococcus agalactiae strains in aquatic mammals and fish. BMC Microbiol. 2013;13:41.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Kimura K, Wachino J, Kurokawa H, Suzuki S, Yamane K, Shibata N, Arakawa Y. Practical disk diffusion test for detecting group B streptococcus with reduced penicillin susceptibility. J Clin Microbiol. 2009;47:4154–7.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Pereira UP, Mian GF, Oliveira IC, Benchetrit LC, Costa GM, Figueiredo HC. Genotyping of Streptococcus agalactiae strains isolated from fish, human and cattle and their virulence potential in Nile tilapia. Vet Microbiol. 2010;140:186–92.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Hernández E, Figueroa J, Iregui C. Streptococcosis on a red tilapia, Oreochromis sp., farm: a case study. J Fish Dis. 2009;32:247–52.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Evans JJ, Klesius PH, Pasnik DJ, Bohnsack JF. Human Streptococcus agalactiae isolate in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Emerg Infect Dis. 2009;15:774–5.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
He Y, Wang KY, Xiao D, Chen DF, Huang L, Liu T, et al. A recombinant truncated surface immunogenic protein (tSip) plus adjuvant FIA confers active protection against Group B streptococcus infection in tilapia. Vaccine. 2014;32:7025–32.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Lin FP, Lan R, Sintchenko V, Gilbert GL, Kong F, Coiera E. Computational bacterial genome-wide analysis of phylogenetic profiles reveals potential virulence genes of Streptococcus agalactiae. PLoS One. 2011;6:e17964.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Sagar A, Klemm C, Hartjes L, Mauerer S, van Zandbergen G, Spellerberg B. The β-hemolysin and intracellular survival of Streptococcus agalactiae in human macrophages. PLoS One. 2013;8:e60160.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Peng KC, Pan CY, Chou HN, Chen JY. Using an improved Tol2 transposon system to produce transgenic zebrafish with epinecidin-1 which enhanced resistance to bacterial infection. Fish Shellfish Immun. 2010;28:905–17.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Nithikulworawong N, Yakupitiyag A, Rakshit S. Molecular characterization and increased expression of the Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.), T-cell receptor beta chain in response to Streptococcus agalactiae infection. J Fish Dis. 2012;35:343–58.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar