Low prevalence of pneumococcal carriage and high serotype and genotype diversity among adults over 60 years of age living in Portugal

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Almeida, Sónia T ^a   Nunes, Sónia ^a   Santos Paulo, Ana Cristina ^a   Valadares, Idalina ^b   Martins, Sara ^b   Breia, Fátima ^c   Brito Avô, António ^b   Morais, Ana ^b   De Lencastre, Hermínia ^a,d   Sá Leão, Raquel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b Agrupamento de Centros de Saúde Oeiras Carnaxide   (Portugal)

^c Agrupamento de Centros de Saúde Alentejo Central II   (Portugal)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLHYDROCUPREINE; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BILE SOLUBILITY TEST; BIOTYPE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CPSA GENE; DEMOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; LYTA GENE; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NASOPHARYNX; OROPHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; RETIREMENT; RURAL AREA; SEROTYPE; SOCIAL STATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URBAN AREA; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEROTYPING; SMOKING; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NASOPHARYNX; OROPHARYNX; PENICILLINS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEROTYPING; SMOKING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84897132136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090974     Document Type: Article

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