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The spread and clinical impact of ST14CC-PBP3 type IIb/A, a clonal group of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae with chromosomally mediated β-lactam resistance-a prospective observational study.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Mar 2017
Månsson V, Skaare D, Riesbeck K, Resman F
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OBJECTIVES: Increasing incidences of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) with β-lactam resistance mediated through mutations in penicillin-binding protein 3 (BLNAR or rPBP3) have been observed in the past decades. Recently, an rPBP3 NTHi sequence type (ST) 14 with PBP3 type IIb/A caused a disease outbreak in a nursing home in Sweden with severe outcomes, indicating increased bacterial virulence. In this...
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