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Spread of multidrug-resistant clonal complex 271 of serotype 19F Streptococcus pneumoniae in Beijing, China: characterization of serotype 19F.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Dec 2013
Li Q H, Yao K H, Yu S J, Ma X, He M M, Shi W, Yang Y H
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We investigated the genetic structure of 120 isolates of serotype 19F Streptococcus pneumoniae from Chinese children with acute respiratory infections collected from 1997 to 2006, and 2010. All strains were susceptible to vancomycin and levofloxacin, and only five strains were not susceptible to penicillin. The non-susceptibility rate to cephalosporins increased from 1997 to 2010. Of 119 erythromycin-resistant...
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