Emergence of Penicillin‐NonsusceptibleStreptococcus pneumoniaeClones Expressing Serotypes Not Present in the Antipneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine

Porat, Nurith; Arguedas, Adriano; G. Spratt, Brian; Trefler, Ronit; Brilla, Eduardo; Loaiza, Cecilia; Godoy, Dan; Bilek, Nicole; Dagan, Ron

doi:10.1086/425908

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Emergence of Penicillin‐NonsusceptibleStreptococcus pneumoniaeClones Expressing Serotypes Not Present in the Antipneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine

Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases • Dec 10, 2004

Authors:

Nurith Porat

Adriano Arguedas

Brian G. Spratt

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Penicillin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates are confined mainly to a few serogroups. Capsular transformation may serve as a mechanism for spreading antibiotic resistance to new serotypes. METHODS: Antibiogram and molecular typing, by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE...

Subject

Serotype

Multilocus sequence typing

Microbiology

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