ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>25º Congresso Brasileiro de Microbiologia </TITLE><link rel=STYLESHEET type=text/css href=css.css></HEAD><BODY aLink=#ff0000 bgColor=#FFFFFF leftMargin=0 link=#000000 text=#000000 topMargin=0 vLink=#000000 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><table align=center width=700 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td align=left bgcolor=#cccccc valign=top width=550><font face=arial size=2><strong><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=3><font size=1>25º Congresso Brasileiro de Microbiologia </font></font></strong><font face=Verdana size=1><b><br></b></font><font face=Verdana, Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><strong> </strong></font></font></td><td align=right bgcolor=#cccccc valign=top width=150><font face=arial size=2><strong><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><font size=1>ResumoID:2573-2</font></em></font></strong></font></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2><br><br><table align=center width=700><tr><td>Área: <b>Microbiologia Clinica ( Divisão A )</b><p align=justify><strong>DISTRIBUTION OF RIB GENE AMONG INVASIVE AND COLONIZING STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE (GBS)ISOLATES RECOVERED IN MISIONES, ARGENTINA</strong></p><p align=justify><b>Lacszeski Margarita </b> (<i>UNaM</i>); <b>Keil Angela </b> (<i>UNaM</i>); <b><u>Oviedo Patricia </u></b> (<i>UNaM</i>); <b>Quiroga Marina </b> (<i>UNaM</i>); <b>Pegels Eduardo </b> (<i>UNaM</i>); <b>Vergara Marta </b> (<i>UNaM</i>)<br><br></p><b><font size=2>Resumo</font></b><p align=justify class=tres><font size=2><P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>GBS<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> </I>is an important cause of invasive infections in neonates. Several virulence factors have been identified and associated with the pathogenesis of GBS. Some serotypes, like III, V and Ia, are recognized as the major serotypes that cause invasive infections. It was reported that <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">rib</I> gene and Rib protein, encoded by <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">rib</I> gene, are present in the large majority of serotype III strains. Characterization of virulence-related genes of GBS isolates is considered as important since there is evidence that some proteins enconded by these genes may contribute to strain differences in virulence. Also, some of these proteins are immunogenic and they may play a future role in development of GBS vaccines.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>This study is the first approach that we have done with the aim to contribute to a better understanding about the distribution of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">rib </I>gene among i</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Advm1046a" lang=EN-US>nvasive and colonizing </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>GBS isolates recovered in Misiones, Argentina. Thirty-four GBS colonizing isolates recovered from vaginal-rectal swabs of pregnant women (gestation, 35 37 weeks) and 7 GBS isolates recovered from blood or cerebrospinal fluid of newborns were studied. <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">rib</I> gene was detected by specific PCR.<SPAN style="COLOR: #231f20"> PCR analysis revealed that</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Advm1046a" lang=EN-US> 94.1% of the colonizing strains possessed the genes<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> rib.</I> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>Across invasive strains, <I>rib </I><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">gene</SPAN> was present in <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">all of the isolates</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Advm1046a" lang=EN-US> (100%). </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>In agreement with others, we did not find <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">rib</I> gene more frequently in invasive versus colonizing GBS strains. <SPAN style="COLOR: black">The gene <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">rib</I> was found at higher frequency than in other studies.</SPAN> The difference could be caused by difference in the capsular serotype distribution of our GBS strains.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>It was concluded that we needed more-extensive analysis of the virulence-related genes presents in our GBS isolates, including the relationship between <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">rib </I>gene and capsular serotype, to contribute with more useful epidemiological data. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></font></p><br><b>Palavras-chave: </b>&nbsp;rib gene, Streptococcus agalactiae, GBS</td></tr></table></tr></td></table></body></html>