Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from middle ear fluid and nasopharynx of children with acute otitis media exhibit phase variation

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1646-1649

  Arai, Jun ^a   Hotomi, Muneki ^a   Hollingshead, Susan K ^b   Ueno, Yumi ^a   Briles, David E ^b   Yamanaka, Noboru ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BODY FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CARRIER STATE; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 79953871095     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01990-10     Document Type: Article

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