Expansion and evolution of the streptococcus pneumoniae Spain 9V-ST156 clonal complex in Poland

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1720-1727

  Sadowy, Ewa ^a   Kuch, Alicja ^a   Gniadkowski, Marek ^a   Hryniewicz, Waleria ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTRIAXONE; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 77951228079     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01340-09     Document Type: Article

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