Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 6 isolates from Fijian children, including newly identified serotypes 6C and 6D.
Satzke, Catherine;
Ortika, Belinda D;
Oftadeh, Shahin;
Russell, Fiona M;
Robins-Browne, Roy M;
Mulholland, E Kim;
Gilbert, Gwendolyn L;
(2010)
Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 6 isolates from Fijian children, including newly identified serotypes 6C and 6D.
Journal of clinical microbiology, 48 (11).
pp. 4298-4300.
ISSN 0095-1137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00861-10
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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.
