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Capsule Switching and Antimicrobial Resistance Acquired during Repeated Streptococcus pneumoniae Pneumonia Episodes.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 2015
Chang Bin, Nariai Akiyoshi, Sekizuka Tsuyoshi, Akeda Yukihiro, Kuroda Makoto, Oishi Kazunori, Ohnishi Makoto
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizes the nasopharyngeal mucus in healthy people and causes otitis media, pneumonia, bacteremia, and meningitis. In this study, we analyzed an S. pneumoniae strain that caused 7 repeated pneumonia episodes in an 80-month-old patient with cerebral palsy during a period of 25 months. A total of 10 S. pneumoniae strains were obtained from sputum samples, and serotype 6B was isolated from...
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