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Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 6 clones over two decades.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Dec 2014
Payne D B, Gray B M
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The major evolutionary stresses on Streptococcus pneumoniae are thought to be the widespread use of antibiotics and the deployment of effective vaccines against the capsular polysaccharides. Our current knowledge of genetic lineages among pneumococcal isolates comes largely from investigations just before and after the introduction of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) introduced in 2000. We...
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