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Genotype replacement within serotype 23F Streptococcus pneumoniae in Beijing, China: characterization of serotype 23F.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Aug 2013
Ma X, Yao K H, Yu S J, Zhou L, Li Q H, Shi W, He M M, Yang Y H
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We investigated the genetic structure of 99 isolates of serotype 23F Streptococcus pneumoniae from children with acute respiratory infections collected over two periods from 1997 to 2006, and 2010. All isolates were susceptible to vancomycin and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid; 97 were resistant to erythromycin, 95 of which carried the ermB gene and two carried both mefA/E and ermB genes. Multidrug resistance to...
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