Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 6 isolates from Fijian children, including newly identified serotypes 6C and 6D.

CatherineSatzke; Belinda DOrtika; ShahinOftadeh; Fiona MRussell; Roy MRobins-Browne; E Kim Mulholland ORCID logo; Gwendolyn LGilbert; (2010) Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 6 isolates from Fijian children, including newly identified serotypes 6C and 6D. Journal of clinical microbiology, 48 (11). pp. 4298-4300. ISSN 0095-1137 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00861-10
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Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was applied to all unique serotype 6C and 6D isolates and a random selection of serotype 6B and 6A isolates from nasopharyngeal swabs from Fijian children enrolled in a recent vaccine trial. The results suggest that Fijian serotype 6D has arisen independently from both serotypes 6A/C and 6B.


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