Molecular typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae in northeastern Romania: unique clones of S. pneumoniae isolated from children hospitalized for infections and from healthy and human immunodeficiency virus-infected children in the community.

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Microbiologic, serologic, and molecular typing techniques were used to characterize 272 isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizing or infecting children in Iasi, Romania, during a surveillance study conducted in 1996-1998. The 574 children in the study were from the following groups: healthy children attending 2 institutions, healthy children hospitalized for elective surgery, hospitalized children with...

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