Increase in pilus islet 2-encoded pili among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 955-962

  Zähner, Dorothea ^a,b   Gudlavalleti, Aditya ^a   Stephens, David S ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PITB PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GEORGIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 77952695187     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1606.091820     Document Type: Article

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