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Overall serotype distribution among vaginal vs rectal isolates was comparable, with a rectal predominance of Ia, i.e. 1 vaginal isolate vs 5 rectal isolates and a vaginal predominance of III, i.e. 10 vaginal isolates vs 4 rectal isolates.
a: V: vaginal isolates 1-4, rectaltal isolates 1-4.
One of the five women with only rectal isolates had one genotype, whereas the other four had two genotypes.
For another 13 of these 19, at least one of the vaginal isolates had a similar genotype as one of the rectal isolates.
Likewise, Sannes et al. noted a high prevalence of group B2 among rectal isolates from hospitalized, elderly, male veterans in Minnesota (20 ).
For 5 out of the 19 women from which both vaginal and rectal isolates were obtained, all the rectal and vaginal isolates were identical.
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These included nine of the 10 bacteraemic isolates, a single rectal isolate, two hand culture isolates and 10 sink isolates.
Eighteen of the 19 subjects with GBS at both sites had at least one vaginal and one rectal isolate with the same genotype.
Genotypic similarity/difference only relates to the other isolates of the same subject, i.e. genotype A of subject 1 does not indicate similarity to genotype A of subject 2. c: Women for which the genotype of at least one vaginal isolate was identical to that of at least one rectal isolate.
For the other species, a similar pattern of large heterogeneity among the vaginal strains of the same species was also observed and about half of the women were found to carry at least one vaginal isolate genotypically identical to at least one rectal isolate.
Spike gene sequences were determined from rectal swab isolates.+, positive; ND, not detected.
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