Clonal Expansion within Pneumococcal Serotype 6C after Use of Seven-Valent Vaccine

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Loman, Nicholas J ^a   Gladstone, Rebecca A ^b   Constantinidou, Chrystala ^c   Tocheva, Anna S ^b   Jefferies, Johanna M C ^b,d   Faust, Saul N ^b,d   O'Connor, Leigh ^a   Chan, Jacqueline ^c   Pallen, Mark J ^c   Clarke, Stuart C ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANTIBIOTIC; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE SEROTYPE 6C;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONE CELLS; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84878390003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064731     Document Type: Article

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