Population Biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae in West Africa: Multilocus Sequence Typing of Serotypes That Exhibit Different Predisposition to Invasive Disease and Carriage

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Donkor, Eric S ^a,d   Adegbola, Richard A ^c   Wren, Brendan W ^a   Antonio, Martin ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^c GSK   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; GAMBIA; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GHANA; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIODIVERSITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; YOUNG ADULT;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84872442247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053925     Document Type: Article

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