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Molecular epidemiologic characteristics of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from children with meningitis in Japan from 2007 through 2009.
Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy - 1 Jun 2011
Sakai Fuminori, Chiba Naoko, Ono Akiko, Yamagata Murayama Somay, Ubukata Kimiko, Sunakawa Keisuke, Takahashi Takashi
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We examined associations of serotypes with multilocus sequence typing (MLST) data for 7 housekeeping genes and the genotype concerning penicillin resistance based on penicillin-binding protein (PBP) alterations in Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from children with meningitis. From throughout Japan, we collected 115 pneumococcal isolates from the cerebrospinal fluid of patients 15 years old or younger from...
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