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Dynamics of penicillin-susceptible clones in invasive pneumococcal disease.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2001
Henriques Normark B, Kalin M, Ortqvist A, Akerlund T, Liljequist B O, Hedlund J, Svenson S B, Zhou J, Spratt B G, Normark S, Källenius G
Abstract excerpt
In a 10-year period, 1987-1997, there was a >4-fold increase in the rate of pneumococcal bacteremia in Sweden. Invasive pneumococcal isolates (n=1136), which were obtained from 18 Swedish clinical microbiology laboratories from 1987 through 1997, and other national and international isolates were serotyped, and their clonal relationships were determined by molecular typing. The increase in invasive pneumococcal...
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