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High Prevalence of Novel Sequence Types in Streptococcus pneumoniae That Caused Invasive Diseases in Kuwait in 2018
22 Jan 2024
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Background: Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is used to gain insight into the population genetics of bacteria in the form of sequence type (ST). MLST has been used to study the evolution and spread of virulent clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae in many parts of the world. Such data for S. pneumoniae are lacking for the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, including Kuwait. Methods: We determined the STs of all 31...
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