Article
Serotype 19A variants of the Spanish serotype 23F multiresistant clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 1998
Coffey T J, Enright M C, Daniels M, Wilkinson P, Berrón S, Fenoll A, Spratt B G
Abstract excerpt
Multiply-antibiotic-resistant isolates of serogroup 19 Streptococcus pneumoniae, possessing altered penicillin-binding protein (PBP) 1A, 2B, and 2X genes that are indistinguishable from those of the Spanish multiresistant serogroup 23F clone, are now commonly encountered in Spain. Those isolates...
Topics
- Bacterial Capsules
- Bacterial Proteins
- Carrier Proteins
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Drug Resistance, Multiple
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Hexosyltransferases
- Humans
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Muramoylpentapeptide Carboxypeptidase
- Penicillin-Binding Proteins
- Peptidyl Transferases
- Pneumococcal Infections
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Serotyping
- Spain