Journal article
Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 6 isolates from Fijian children, including newly identified serotypes 6C and 6D
C Satzke, BD Ortika, S Oftadeh, FM Russell, RM Robins-Browne, EK Mulholland, GL Gilbert
Journal of Clinical Microbiology | AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY | Published : 2010
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00861-10
Abstract
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. Copyright © 2010, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Ping Jin, Fanrong Kong, Meng Xiao, Jacqueline Williams, Haslinawaty Kassim, and the families and staff of the Fiji Pneumococcal Project. We acknowledge the use of the pneumococcal MLST database, which is located at Imperial College London and is funded by the Wellcome Trust.