Publication Date:
2014-08-06
Description:
Article Group B streptococci (GBS) started causing serious infections in newborn babies in the 1960s. Here, the authors show that the emergence of GBS diseases was associated with worldwide dissemination of a few clones that were resistant to tetracycline, an antibiotic that became widely used in the 1950s. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms5544 Authors: Violette Da Cunha, Mark R. Davies, Pierre-Emmanuel Douarre, Isabelle Rosinski-Chupin, Immaculada Margarit, Sebastien Spinali, Tim Perkins, Pierre Lechat, Nicolas Dmytruk, Elisabeth Sauvage, Laurence Ma, Benedetta Romi, Magali Tichit, Maria-José Lopez-Sanchez, Stéphane Descorps-Declere, Erika Souche, Carmen Buchrieser, Patrick Trieu-Cuot, Ivan Moszer, Dominique Clermont, Domenico Maione, Christiane Bouchier, David J. McMillan, Julian Parkhill, John L. Telford, Gordan Dougan, Mark J. Walker, Matthew T. G. Holden, Claire Poyart, Philippe Glaser
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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