Molecular epidemiology of nonencapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae among Japanese children with acute otitis media

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 72-77

  Hotomi, Muneki ^a   Nakajima, Kouji ^a   Hiraoka, Masanobu ^a   Nahm, Moon H ^b   Yamanaka, Noboru ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute otitis media; MLST; Nonencapsulated S. pneumonia; PspK

Indexed keywords

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ACUTE RHINOSINUSITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NASOPHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; COMPLICATION; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING;

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; VACCINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEPTAVALENT PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; SEROGROUP; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINES, CONJUGATE;

EID: 84953432945     PISSN: 1341321X     EISSN: 14377780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiac.2015.10.006     Document Type: Article

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