TY - JOUR AU - Kardos, Szilvia AU - Tóthpál, Adrienn AU - Laub, Krisztina AU - Kristóf, Katalin AU - Ostorházi, Eszter AU - Rozgonyi, Ferenc AU - Dobay, Orsolya PY - 2019 DA - 2019/11/28 TI - High prevalence of group B streptococcus ST17 hypervirulent clone among non-pregnant patients from a Hungarian venereology clinic JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 1009 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Although Streptococcus agalactiae is the leading causative agent of neonatal sepsis and meningitis, recently it is increasingly isolated from non-pregnant adults. The relation between its presence in the genitourinary tract and manifested clinical symptoms of STD patients remains an open question. In this study, a complex epidemiological investigation of GBS isolates from a venerology clinic was performed. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4626-7 DO - 10.1186/s12879-019-4626-7 ID - Kardos2019 ER -