Genetic diversity of Tn916-related transposons among drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates colonizing healthy children in Venezuela

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4930-4932

  Quintero, Beatríz ^a,b,c   Araque, María ^b   Van Der Gaast De Jongh, Christa ^c   Hermans, Peter W M ^c  

^a Universidad De Los Andes Facultad de Medicina   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TN916 TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON; VENEZUELA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VENEZUELA;

EID: 80052860715     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00242-11     Document Type: Article

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