The three major Spanish clones of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae are the most common clones recovered in recent cases of meningitis in Spain

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3210-3216

  Enright, Mark C ^a   Fenoll, Asunción ^b   Griffiths, David ^a   Spratt, Brian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUROPE; HUMAN; MENINGITIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SPAIN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

NEGIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032880477     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.10.3210-3216.1999     Document Type: Article

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