Serotype 19A variants of the Spanish serotype 23F multiresistant clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-55

  Coffey, Tracey J ^a   Enright, Mark C ^a   Daniels, Maggie ^a   Wilkinson, Paul ^a   Berrón, Sonsoles ^b   Fenoll, Asuncion ^b   Spratt, Brian G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HYBRIDIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031899920     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1998.4.51     Document Type: Article

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