Article
Sequence types and antimicrobial susceptibility of invasive streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from a region with high antibiotic selective pressure and suboptimal vaccine coverage.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal - 1 May 2010
Janapatla Rajendra-Prasad, Hsu Mei-Hua, Du Jia-Fu, Hsieh Yu-Chia, Lin Tzou-Yien, Chiu Cheng-Hsun
Abstract excerpt
Multilocus sequence typing was carried out on 95 invasive pneumococcal isolates belonging to the most common 7 serotypes currently circulating in Taiwan. The study confirmed continued prevalence in Taiwan of a few global clones and sequence types (STs) since the mid-1990s and identified the recent emergence of ST320 (19A) and ST902 (6A). Antimicrobial nonsusceptibility was common in the predominant STs of...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cluster Analysis
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infant
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Pneumococcal Infections
- Pneumococcal Vaccines
- Selection, Genetic
- Sequence Analysis, DNA