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We aimed to understand the clinical and microbiological characteristics of this GBS strain.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We conducted a retrospective study on infants with invasive GBS disease from the largest women\u2019s and children\u2019s medical center in Shanxi and collected data between January 2017 and October 2020. GBS isolates were analyzed by capsule serotyping, genotyping, antibiotic resistance, and surface protein genes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>All ST10 isolates belonged to serotype Ib; type Ib\/ST10 strains were responsible for 66.7% (14\/21, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05) of infant invasive GBS infections during the period and all resulted in late-onset (LOD) and late LOD disease (14\/14). Infants with type Ib\/ST10 GBS disease had significantly higher rates of meningitis (9\/14, 64.3%, p &amp;lt; 0.05) and clinical complications (5\/14, 35.7%, p &amp;lt; 0.05). The Ib\/ST10 GBS isolates had limited genetic diversity, clustered in the CC10\/bca\/PI-1 + PI-2a genetic lineage, showed resistance to erythromycin, lincomycin, and fluoroquinolones and sensitivity to tetracycline, and possessed genes <jats:italic>ermT<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>ermB<\/jats:italic>, and amino acid changes in <jats:italic>gyrA<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>parC<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The probable clonal expansion can result in severe infections in infants and ongoing emergence of multi-drug resistant isolates. 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