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A statistically significant relationship between ST-17 and invasive isolates (p = 0.0398) and ST-23 and colonizing strains (p = 0.0034) was detected. Moreover, 2 novel STs were detected (ST-637 and ST-638). Molecular serotyping showed that in the invasive isolates serotype III was predominant (11; 50%), followed by serotypes II (6; 27%), V (3; 14%) and Ia (2; 9%). In healthy newborns, serotype III was also dominant (12; 60%), followed by serotypes Ia (4; 20%), II (2; 10%), V (1; 5%) and Ib (1; 5%). Protein gene profiling indicated that the <i>rib <\/i>gene was predominant in the invasive strains (11; 59%), followed by <i>bca <\/i>(5; 22%),<i> alp2 <\/i>(2; 9%),<i> alp3 <\/i>(1; 5%) and <i>epsilon <\/i>(1; 5%), while in colonizing strains the <i>alp2 <\/i>gene was most common (10; 50%), followed by<i> epsilon <\/i>(5; 25%), <i>rib <\/i>(2; 10%), <i>bca <\/i>(2; 10%) and <i>alp3 <\/i>(1; 5%). A statistically significant relationship was noted between the <i>rib<\/i> gene and invasive GBS (p = 0.0329), whereas <i>alp2 <\/i>was related to the colonizing strains (p = 0.0495). <b><i>Conclusions:<\/i><\/b> The investigated GBS isolates originating from infections in newborns and healthy neonates represented serotype III in more than half of the cases and differed from one another in terms of resistance to macrolides, ST type affiliation and the presence of genes encoding surface proteins from the Alp family. 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