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Molecular epidemiology of penicillin-susceptible, multidrug-resistant serotype 6B pneumococci isolated from children in Greece.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2001
Syrogiannopoulos G A, Bogaert D, Grivea I N, Beratis N G, De Groot R R, Hermans P W
Abstract excerpt
Since January 1996, and over a 3-year time span, a significant spread of serotype 6B multidrug-resistant (MDR) pneumococci, susceptible to penicillin and resistant to erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, was noted in young carriers living in central and southern Greece. Using restriction fragment end labeling and penicillin binding protein (PBP) genotyping,...
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