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Pneumococcal Disease
Research reports from J.H. Song and co-authors provide new insights into pneumococcal disease
April 15th, 2009
According to a study from Seoul, South Korea, "We investigated the change in clones and serotypes; of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in a Korean tertiary-care hospital. Serotypes of S. pneumoniae isolates were determined by the capsular quellung method, and in vitro susceptibility testing was performed by broth microdilution method. Multilocus sequence typing was performed to determine the genotypes of the S. pneumoniae isolates, The erm(B) using the duplex polymerase chain reaction method." "During the and mef(A) genes in erythromycin-resistant isolates were also detected 2 periods assayed (1998-2000 and 2007), 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7)...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-04-15)
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