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Subtyping of common pediatric pneumococcal serotypes from invasive disease and pharyngeal carriage in Finland.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 1996
Takala A K, Vuopio-Varkila J, Tarkka E, Leinonen M, Musser J M
Abstract excerpt
Ninety-nine penicillin-sensitive Streptococcus pneumoniae strains of common pediatric serogroups/types (6, 7, 14, 19, and 23) cultured from the blood of children with invasive disease (n = 49) or asymptomatic oropharyngeal carriage (n = 50) were analyzed by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and ribotyping; 53 distinctive multilocus enzyme genotypes (ETs) and 53 ribotypes were identified. Multilocus enzyme...
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