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Diversity of pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA) among prevalent clones in Spain

BACKGROUND: PspA is recognized as a major pneumococcal virulence factor and a possible vaccine candidate. The aim of this study was to analyze the PspA family and clade distribution among 112 Spanish pneumococci representatives of dominant clones among patients with invasive disease (n = 66) and nas...

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Autores principales: Rolo, Dora, Ardanuy, Carmen, Fleites, Ana, Martín, Rogelio, Liñares, Josefina
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19419534
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-9-80