PspA Family Distribution, Antimicrobial Resistance and Serotype of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolated from Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Japan

BACKGROUND: The protection against pneumococcal infections provided by currently available pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccines are restricted to the limited number of the serotypes included in the vaccine. In the present study, we evaluated the distribution of the pneumococcal capsular ty...

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Main Authors: Hotomi, Muneki, Togawa, Akihisa, Kono, Masamitsu, Ikeda, Yorihiko, Takei, Shin, Hollingshead, Susan K., Briles, David E., Suzuki, Kenji, Yamanaka, Noboru
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3590126/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23483982
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058124
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