Temporal Trends and Molecular Epidemiology of Recently Described Serotype 6C of Streptococcus pneumoniae
- 31 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 47 (2) , 472-474
- https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01984-08
Abstract
We studied the epidemiology of the recently described serotype 6C of Streptococcus pneumoniae among a collection of carriage isolates recovered between 1996 and 2007 in Portugal. Of 4,064 isolates, 106 (2.6%) were of serotype 6C, 17.9% of which were multidrug resistant. The strains were genetically diverse.Keywords
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