Natalia Silva Costa, Laura Maria Andrade Oliveira, Andre Rio-Tinto, Isabella Bittencourt Ferreira Pinto, Ana Elisa Almeida Santos Oliveira, Julia de Deus Santana, Laiane Ferreira Santos, Rayssa Santos Nogueira Costa, Penelope Saldanha Marinho, Sergio Eduardo Longo Fracalanzza, Lucia Martins Teixeira, Tatiana Castro Abreu Pinto
Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus ; GBS) is a leading cause of neonatal invasive disease worldwide. GBS can colonize the human gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts, and the anovaginal colonization of pregnant women is the main source for neonatal infection. Streptococcus anginosus , in turn, can colonize the human upper respiratory, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary tracts but has rarely been observed causing disease. However, in the last years, S. anginosus has been increasingly associated with human infections, mainly in the bloodstream and gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts...
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