Variation in the presence of neuraminidase genes among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates with identical sequence types

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3360-3365

  Pettigrew, Melinda M ^a   Fennie, Kristopher P ^b   York, Matthew P ^a   Daniels, Janeen ^a,d   Ghaffar, Faryal ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d SPELMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIALIC ACID; SIALIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAR; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NANB GENE; NANC GENE; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEURAMINIDASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRULENCE;

EID: 33646950675     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01442-05     Document Type: Article

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