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To the Editor.— McGuire and his colleagues (238:2054, 1977) are indeed correct that osteomyelitis caused by group B β-hemolytic streptococci (GBS) is rare. However, their assertion that there are only five reported cases of osteomyelitis from GBS in neonates is erroneous. There are three additional neonatal cases of osteomyelitis caused by GBS. 1-3 In one of these three cases, 1 GBS were also isolated from vaginal smears of the mother, whereas in the remaining two instances 2-3 GBS were not found in vaginal-cervical smears or in breast milk from the mothers five to six weeks after delivery.
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