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2. Spread of the Streptococcus pneumoniae Taiwan19F-14 clone among children in Greece

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T. Athanasiou, A. Charisiadou, A. Mavroidi, Panayotis T. Tassios, I. Paraskakis, E. Kirikou, A. Pangalis, and Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis

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clone (Java method), Serotype, Microbiology (medical), Adolescent, medicine.disease_cause, Pneumococcal Infections, Microbiology, Antibiotic resistance, Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, medicine, Humans, Child, Children, Molecular Epidemiology, biology, Greece, Infant, General Medicine, Sequence Analysis, DNA, medicine.disease, Streptococcaceae, biology.organism_classification, Virology, Bacterial Typing Techniques, Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field, pneumococci, Pneumococcal infections, Infectious Diseases, Child, Preschool, Taiwan19F-14, Multilocus sequence typing, epidemiology
Abstract

Serotype 19F pneumococci were a leading cause of infections among children in Athens, Greece during 2001–2006. In total, 143 19F isolates were typed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and 38 isolates representing the main PFGE types were also characterised by multilocus sequence typing. A diversity of distinct strains belonging to sequence types 236, 1035, 274, 172 and 319 were identified, but multidrug-resistant isolates related to the Taiwan19F-14 clone (ST236) constituted 76.9% of the isolates. Spread of the Taiwan19F-14 clone explains, in part, the high incidence of antibiotic resistance observed among pneumococci reported recently from Athens.

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2007
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