Chloramphenicol-resistant Neisseria meningitidis containing catP isolated in Australia

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Earlier workers have described chloramphenicol resistance in meningococci isolated from cerebrospinal fluid sampled in patients in Vietnam (11 cases) and France (one case) during 1987-1996. Here we describe two distinct serogroup B strains isolated in Australia in 1994 and 1997, and found among approximately 1400 invasive meningococcal isolates examined in Australia over a 9 year period. Both were phenotypically...