Putatively novel serotypes and the potential for reduced vaccine effectiveness: capsular locus diversity revealed among 5405 pneumococcal genomes

Microbial genomics

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 000090-

  van Tonder, Andries J ^a   Bray, James E ^b   Quirk, Sigríður J ^c   Haraldsson, Gunnsteinn ^c   Jolley, Keith A ^b   Maiden, Martin C J ^b   Hoffmann, Steen ^d   Bentley, Stephen D ^e   Haraldsson, Ásgeir ^c   Erlendsdóttir, Helga ^c   Kristinsson, Karl G ^c   Brueggemann, Angela B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^d STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

molecular epidemiology; pneumococcal capsular locus; sequence based serotyping; vaccine impact

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

BACTERIAL CAPSULE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 85045973852     PISSN: 20575858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000090     Document Type: Article

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