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Serotype and genotype distributions of pneumococcal carriage isolates recovered from Brazilian children attending day-care centres.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Oct 2011
Pimenta Fabiana C, Carvalho Maria da Gloria S, Gertz Robert E, Bastos-Rocha Cristyane G B, Oliveira Luciana S C, Lacerda Pigosso Laurine, Lima Juliane A, Marquez Franco Caritas, Andrade Ana Lucia, Beall Bernard W
Abstract excerpt
Pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage isolates recovered from Brazilian children attending day-care centres in 2005 were assessed for serotype, genotype and penicillin susceptibility phenotype. As 124 of the 253 isolates (49 %) were characterized previously with respect to serotype and penicillin susceptibility, the primary objectives were to examine clonal associations and penicillin susceptibility within major...
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