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Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 6 isolates from Fijian children, including newly identified serotypes 6C and 6D.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2010
Satzke Catherine, Ortika Belinda D, Oftadeh Shahin, Russell Fiona M, Robins-Browne Roy M, Mulholland E Kim, Gilbert Gwendolyn L
Abstract excerpt
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was applied to all unique serotype 6C and 6D isolates and a random selection of serotype 6B and 6A isolates from nasopharyngeal swabs from Fijian children enrolled in a recent vaccine trial. The results suggest that Fijian serotype 6D has arisen independently from both serotypes 6A/C and 6B.
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