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  • Title: Spread of the Streptococcus pneumoniae Taiwan19F-14 clone among children in Greece.
    Author: Mavroidi A, Paraskakis I, Pangalis A, Kirikou E, Charisiadou A, Athanasiou T, Tassios PT, Tzouvelekis LS.
    Journal: Clin Microbiol Infect; 2007 Dec; 13(12):1213-6. PubMed ID: 17944968.
    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 Taiwan(19F)-14 clone (ST236) constituted 76.9% of the isolates. Spread of the Taiwan(19F)-14 clone explains, in part, the high incidence of antibiotic resistance observed among pneumococci reported recently from Athens.
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