Genomic epidemiology of Group B Streptococcus colonization among pregnant women in Japan, 2021–2023

• Chizu Nishi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Mimihara General Hospital, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

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• Hirofumi Ohtaki ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ohtaki@kansai.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory, Mimihara General Hospital, Sakai, Osaka, Japan, Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Kansai University of Health Sciences, Sennan-gun, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7072-5056

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• Masaki Karino,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Kansai University of Health Sciences, Sennan-gun, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8726-1913

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• Hiromi Uekita,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Kansai University of Health Sciences, Sennan-gun, Osaka, Japan

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• Ayumi Sano,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Mimihara General Hospital, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

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• Tetsuya Kobayashi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Mimihara General Hospital, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

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• Susumu Kaino,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Mimihara General Hospital, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

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• Yoshiki Sakamoto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mimihara General Hospital, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

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• Satoshi Nakano

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Higashimurayama-shi, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8987-0250

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