The adaptive potential during nasopharyngeal colonisation of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1989-1995

  Leung, Marcus H Y ^a   Oriyo, Ndekya M ^a,b   Gillespie, Stephen H ^a,c   Charalambous, Bambos M ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Genetic diversity; Multilocus sequence typing; Multiple colonisation; Nasopharyngeal carriage; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TANZANIA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; NASOPHARYNX; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 82655173836     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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