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.

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