Highly penicillin-resistant multidrug-resistant pneumococcus-like strains colonizing children in Oeiras, Portugal: Genomic characteristics and implications for surveillance

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 238-246

  Simões, Alexandra S ^a   Sá Leão, Raquel ^a,b   Eleveld, Marc J ^c   Tavares, Débora A ^a   Carriço, João A ^d,e   Bootsma, Hester J ^c   Hermans, Peter W M ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^e INESC ID   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHILD; GENOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PSEUDOPNEUMONIAE;

EID: 73949102325     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01313-09     Document Type: Article

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