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Antimicrobial resistance, penicillin-binding protein sequences, and pilus islet carriage in relation to clonal evolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19A in Russia, 2002-2013.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Jun 2017
Mayanskiy N, Savinova T, Alyabieva N, Ponomarenko O, Brzhozovskaya E, Lazareva A, Katosova L, Kozlov R
Abstract excerpt
Clonal changes of serotype 19A pneumococci have been appreciated in conjunction with growing prevalence of this serotype after implementation of the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7). In the present study, we characterized serotype 19A pneumococci collected in Russia within a decade preceding the implementation of PCV vaccination and described their clonal evolution. We retrospectively analyzed...
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