Disease Isolates of Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae and Non-Typeable S. pneumoniae Presumptively Identified as Atypical S. pneumoniae in Spain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Rolo, Dora ^a,b   S Simões, Alexandra ^c   Domenech, Arnau ^a,b   Fenoll, Asunción ^d   Liñares, Josefina ^a,b   de Lencastre, Hermínia ^c,e   Ardanuy, Carmen ^a,b   Sá Leão, Raquel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHYLHYDROCUPREINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PNEUMOLYSIN; RNA 16S; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ALIB LIKE ORF2 GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; AUTOLYSIN A GENE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BILE SOLUBILITY; BRONCHIAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE BIOSYNTHESIS A GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NON TYPEABLE STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCOCCAL SURFACE PROTEIN A GENE; PNEUMOLYSIN GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOLUBILITY; SPAIN; SPN9802 GENE; SPUTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PSEUDOPNEUMONIAE;

FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84874344121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057047     Document Type: Article

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