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Increased penicillin nonsusceptibility of nonvaccine-serotype invasive pneumococci other than serotypes 19A and 6A in post-7-valent conjugate vaccine era.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2010
Gertz Robert E, Li Zhongya, Pimenta Fabiana C, Jackson Delois, Juni Billie A, Lynfield Ruth, Jorgensen James H, Carvalho Maria da Gloria, Beall Bernard W
Abstract excerpt
According to population-based invasive pneumococcal surveillance in the United States during 2007, 898 (26%) of 3,511 isolates were penicillin nonsusceptible. Non-7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) serotypes other than 19A accounted for 40% of these penicillin-nonsusceptible isolates; of these, serotypes 15A (11%), 23A (8%), 35B (8%), and 6C (5%) were most common (cumulatively 32% of...
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