is associated with the ingestion of contaminated reconstituted powdered infant formula (PIF), resulting in necrotizing enterocolitis, sepsis and meningitis in neonatal infants. Potential virulence determinants include the variable capsular polysaccharides; K-antigen and colanic acid (CA). Strains encoding for the capsule variant K2:CA2 have been strongly associated with neonatal meningitis cases. This study aimed to develop and apply a multiplex PCR assay to determine
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