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Spread of the Spanish multi-resistant serotype 23F clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae to Seoul, Korea.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 1997
McGee L, Klugman K P, Friedland D, Lee H J
Abstract excerpt
Multi-resistant serotype 23F pneumococcal strains from an outbreak in a day-care centre in South Africa and strains from sporadic cases in Korea were analysed for their relatedness, by means of arbitrarily-primed PCR (AP-PCR), repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR (rep-PCR) and penicillin-binding protein (PBP) gene profiles. The South African strains previously shown to be identical to the 23F Spanish clone had...
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