title: Properties of serological group B streptococci of dog, cat and monkey origin.
abstract: This study was designed to identify and characterize further Streptococcus agalactiae isolated during routine diagnostics from three diseased dogs and a cat, as well as from the inner organs of a monkey which died on a sepsis with beta-haemolytic streptococci. The cultures could be identified as streptococci of serological group B by cultural, biochemical and serological properties and by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified 16S ribosomal DNA. A further characterization of the isolates by serotyping and by determination of antibiotic resistances revealed a close relationship of these isolates to the human biotype of this species.
authors.affiliation: Bakteriologie und Immunologie der Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Frankfurter, Germany.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lämmler
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abdulmawjood
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Weiss
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002144:Callithrix; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D002415:Cats; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D018419:Primate Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D012703:Serotyping; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013292:Streptococcus agalactiae / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification