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Denmark14-230 clone as an increasing cause of pneumococcal infection in Portugal within a background of diverse serotype 19A lineages.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2010
Aguiar Sandra I, Pinto Francisco R, Nunes Sónia, Serrano Isa, Melo-Cristino José, Sá-Leão Raquel, Ramirez Mário, de Lencastre Hermínia
Abstract excerpt
Pneumococci of serotype 19A are increasingly found to be the cause of infection in various geographic regions. We have characterized the serotype 19A isolates (n = 288) found among pneumococci responsible for infections (n = 1,925) and pneumococci recovered from asymptomatic carriers (n = 1,973) in Portugal between 2001 and 2006. We show that despite the existence of serotype 19A clones that have a greater...
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