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Methods: Antibiotic susceptibility testing was conducted according to the EUCAST criteria. PCR-serotyping, determination of mutations in the quinolone resistance-determining regions (QRDRs), and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) were performed on all levofloxacin-resistant strains. Results: Among the 328 GBS isolates, 11.9% exhibited resistance to levofloxacin. We categorized the samples into two main groups: vaginal (64.1%) and extra-vaginal. The latter was further subdivided into invasive (10.3%) and non-invasive (25.6%) ones. The most common serotypes identified were V (30.8%) and III (25.6%). All examined resistant strains possessed missense mutations in the QRDR of parC (Ser79Phe\/Tyr and Asp83Asn), whereas 59.0% of them exhibited additional mutation in gyrA (Ser81Leu and Glu85Lys\/Ala). The MLST results disclosed six clonal complexes: CC19(64.1%), followed by CC1 (10.3%), CC452 (7.7%), and CC459 (5.1%), and CC12 and CC23, represented by single strains. Conclusions: We observed a growing resistance to fluoroquinolones that appears to exceed the average in Europe. More than half of the isolates exhibited the accumulation of mutations within the QRDRs. 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