Piliation of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in the era before pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction in Malawi

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1729-1735

  Kulohoma, Benard W ^a,b   Gray, Katherine ^c   Kamng'ona, Arox ^a,b,c   Cornick, Jennifer ^a,b   Bentley, Stephen D ^d,f   Heyderman, Robert S ^a,e   Everett, Dean B ^a,b  

^a MALAWI LIVERPOOL WELLCOME TRUST CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL PILIATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM PILUS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALAWI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALAWI; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84886734753     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00403-13     Document Type: Article

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