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Insight into the Diversity of Penicillin-Binding Protein 2x Alleles and Mutations in Viridans Streptococci.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 May 2017
van der Linden Mark, Otten Julia, Bergmann Carina, Latorre Cristina, Liñares Josefina, Hakenbeck Regine
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The identification of commensal streptococci species is an everlasting problem due to their ability to genetically transform. A new challenge in this respect is the recent description of Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae as a new species, which was distinguished from closely related pathogenic S. pneumoniae and commensal S. mitis by a variety of physiological and molecular biological tests. Forty-one atypical S....
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