Spread of the Spanish multi-resistant serotype 23F clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae to Seoul, Korea

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 253-257

  McGee, Lesley ^a,c   Klugman, Keith P ^a   Friedland, David ^a   Lee, Hoan Jong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; KOREA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; SOUTH AFRICA; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030835460     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1997.3.253     Document Type: Article

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