Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of two penicillin-susceptible serotype 6B Streptococcus pneumoniae clones circulating in Italy

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2855-2861

  Gherardi, Giovanni ^a   Del Grosso, Maria ^b   Scotto D'Abusco, Anna ^b,c   D'Ambrosio, Fabio ^b   Dicuonzo, Giordano ^a   Pantosti, Annalisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PROTEIN DHF; PROTEIN PBP2B; PROTEIN PBP2X; PROTEIN PSPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; HUNGARY; ITALY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ITALY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLINS; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FELIS CATUS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0037814981     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.7.2855-2861.2003     Document Type: Article

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