Emergence of a serotype 1 Streptococcus pneumoniae lineage colonising healthy children in Portugal in the seven-valent conjugate vaccination era

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-84

  Nunes, S ^a   Sa Leao R ^a   Pereira, L C ^a   de Lencastre, H ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carriage; Colonisation; Conjugate vaccine; Pneumococci; Serotype 1; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; SEVEN VALENT PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CHILD HEALTH; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PORTUGAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 36849078016     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2007.01871.x     Document Type: Article

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