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Epidemiological typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae from various sources in Sweden and India using Box A PCR fingerprinting.
APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica - 1 Apr 1999
Lalitha M K, Bäärnhielm M, Kihlström E, Kronvall G
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Epidemiological typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae is essential to determine strain relatedness and also to trace resistant clones. The novel Box A PCR assay was used for characterization of S. pneumoniae isolates from two Scandinavian countries and to compare those from India on the Asian continent. In addition, the assay was employed to determine the clonality of 25 pneumococcal strains from an outbreak in a...
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