Novel clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae causing invasive disease in Malaysia.

Although Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of childhood disease in South East Asia, little has previously been reported regarding the epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease in Malaysia and very few studies have explored pneumococcal epidemiology using multilocus sequence typing (MLS...

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Main Authors: Johanna M Jefferies, Mohd Yasim Mohd Yusof, Shamala Devi Sekaran, Stuart C Clarke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24941079/pdf/?tool=EBI