Article
Clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from nasopharyngeal carriage and invasive disease in young children in central Tennessee.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 May 2001
Robinson D A, Edwards K M, Waites K B, Briles D E, Crain M J, Hollingshead S K
Abstract excerpt
To determine whether nasopharyngeal carriage isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae are of the same genetic background as isolates that caused invasive disease in one community, IS1167 and boxA genotypes were obtained for 182 pneumococcal isolates from children living in central Tennessee. The isol...
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