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Ana Lucia S Sgambatti de Andrade1, Fabiana Cristina Pimenta, Cristina Aparecida Borges Laval, João Guimarães de Andrade, Maria Luiza Guerra, Maria Cristina C Brandileone.
Abstract
We present a case of invasive pneumococcal infection in a healthy 10-month-old infant from whom Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 23F was isolated from the blood and serotype 23B was isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid. Both serotypes were penicillin nonsusceptible. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis demonstrated that the two serotypes had distinct DNA patterns, indicating that infection did not occur as a result of capsular transformation but as a result of a mixed infection with two distinct pneumococcal serotypes.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15131230 PMCID: PMC404657 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.5.2345-2346.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948