Prevalence of pilus-encoding islets and clonality of pneumococcal isolates from children with acute otitis media

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 515-519

  Vainio, A ^a   Kaijalainen, T ^a   Hakanen, A J ^a   Virolainen, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PILUS ISLET 1 PROTEIN; PILUS ISLET 2 PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CHILD; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINLAND; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FINLAND; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; NASOPHARYNX; OTITIS MEDIA; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 79956031007     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: 14354373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-010-1112-y     Document Type: Article

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