First report of serotype 23B Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from an adult patient with invasive infection in Japan

Serotype 23B Streptococcus pneumoniae was isolated from a 67-year-old Japanese patient with meningitis. This isolate was susceptible to penicillin G, while genotyped as gPISP with a mutation in a penicillin-binding motif in PBP2b. The 23B isolate was assigned to ST11996 that is related to CC439, a d...

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Autores principales: Takamatsu, A., Kawaguchiya, M., Chang, B., Ito, M., Hirano, Y., Katsuta, S., Matsuzaka, S., Serizawa, Y., Kobayashi, N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28417006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2017.02.008

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