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Invasive Serotype 35B Pneumococci Including an Expanding Serotype Switch Lineage, United States, 2015-2016.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2017
Chochua Sopio, Metcalf Benjamin J, Li Zhongya, Walker Hollis, Tran Theresa, McGee Lesley, Beall Bernard
Abstract excerpt
We used whole-genome sequencing to characterize 199 nonvaccine serotype 35B pneumococcal strains that caused invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in the United States during 2015-2016 and related these findings to previous serotype 35B IPD data obtained by Active Bacterial Core surveillance. Penicillin-nonsusceptible 35B IPD increased during post-pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate vaccine years (2001-2009) and...
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