Emergence of a multidrug-resistant clone (ST320) among invasive serotype 19A pneumococci in Spain

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 507-510

  Ardanuy, Carmen ^a,b   Rolo, Dora ^a,b   Fenoll, Asunción ^c   Tarrago, David ^c   Calatayud, Laura ^a,b   Liñares, Josefina ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Resistance; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Transposons

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PROTEIN ERM B; PROTEIN INT; PROTEIN MEF A; PROTEIN MEF B; PROTEIN MEF E; PROTEIN MEF I; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE M PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XIS PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE SEROTYPE 19A; TRANSPOSON;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 69049105487     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkp210     Document Type: Article

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