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Diversity of antibiotic resistance integrative and conjugative elements among haemophili.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jun 2007
Dimopoulou Ioanna D, Kartali Sofia I, Harding Rosalind M, Peto Tim E A, Crook Derrick W
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to investigate the sequence diversity in a single country of a family of integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) that are vectors of antibiotic resistance in Haemophilus influenzae and Haemophilus parainfluenzae, and test the hypothesis that they emerged from a single lineage. Sixty subjects aged 9 months - 13 years were recruited and oropharyngeal samples cultured. Up to 10...
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