{
  "abstracts": [
    {
      "content": "We report several cases of recombination events leading to capsular switching among sequence type (ST) 1 group B Streptococcus strains. These strains otherwise shared a common genome backbone with serotype V ST1 strains. However, the genomes of ST1 serotype V strains and those of serotypes VI, VII, and VIII strains differed substantially.",
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      "index": 0,
      "raw_name": "Alefiya Neemuchwala",
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    },
    {
      "index": 1,
      "raw_name": "Sarah Teatero",
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    {
      "index": 2,
      "raw_name": "Taryn B.T. Athey",
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      "raw_name": "Allison McGeer",
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      "raw_name": "Nahuel Fittipaldi",
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    "doi": "10.3201/eid2211.152064"
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    "country": "us",
    "doaj": {
      "keywords": [
        "group B Streptococcus",
        "capsular switching",
        "recombination",
        "whole-genome sequencing",
        "bacteria",
        "streptococci"
      ],
      "subject": [
        {
          "code": "R",
          "scheme": "LCC",
          "term": "Medicine"
        },
        {
          "code": "RC109-216",
          "scheme": "LCC",
          "term": "Infectious and parasitic diseases"
        }
      ]
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  "issue": "11",
  "language": "en",
  "license_slug": "cc-by",
  "pages": "1941-1944",
  "publisher": "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention",
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  "release_stage": "published",
  "release_type": "article-journal",
  "release_year": 2016,
  "revision": "2c1d95aa-c8e2-449e-bb79-e9bb969597c9",
  "state": "active",
  "title": "Capsular Switching and Other Large-Scale Recombination Events in Invasive Sequence Type 1 Group B Streptococcus",
  "volume": "22",
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}