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Purpose. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is one of the major pathogens in severe materno-neonatal infections. We aimed to describe the clinical and molecular characteristics of GBS isolates causing infections in 45 maternal and 50 neonatal subjects, collected from eight healthcare centres in mainland China over the period 2010– 2017.

Methodology. The phenotypic and genotypic features of the GBS isolates, including capsular polysaccharide (cps) serotypes, pilus island (PI) genes and antibiotic resistance profiles and genes, were characterized by both conventional and molecular methods. The clonal relationship between these strains was investigated using multilocus sequence typing (MLST).

Results. Of the 95 isolates, the predominant serotypes were III (51, 53.7 %), V (13, 13.7 %) and Ib (13, 13.7 %). All GBS strains carried at least one pilus island, with 32.6 % carrying PI-2b and 67.4 % PI-2a, singly or in combination. The most frequently-detected pilus island pattern was the combination of PI-1 and PI-2a, accounting for 56.8 % (54 isolates), followed by PI-1 combined with PI-2b (28, 29.5 %), PI-2a (10, 10.5 %) and PI-2b (3, 3.2 %). The strains were classified into 17 individual sequence types, and further clustered into six clonal complexes (CCs). A high prevalence of CC17/PI-1 and PI-2b (17, 34.0 %) was detected in 50 GBS isolates causing neonatal infections. No strain was resistant to penicillin, ampicillin, ceftriaxone or vancomycin, whereas 78.9, 76.8 and 81.5 % were resistant to erythromycin, clindamycin and tetracycline, respectively.

Conclusion. Our study highlights the high genotypic diversity of GBS strains causing materno-neonatal infections, and the CC17/PI-1 and PI-2b sublineages should be noted in neonatal infections.

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