Journal article
Genetic Relatedness among Nontypeable Pneumococci Implicated in Sporadic Cases of Conjunctivitis
Journal of clinical microbiology, Vol.37(12), pp.4039-4041
12/1999
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.37.12.4039-4041.1999
PMCID: PMC85874
PMID: 10565927
Abstract
Nontypeable
Streptococcus pneumoniae
is a common cause of epidemic conjunctivitis. A previous molecular fingerprinting study identified a clone of nontypeable pneumococcus that was responsible for a recent outbreak of conjunctivitis. In the present study, we examined the extent to which pneumococci that cause sporadic cases of conjunctivitis are related to this epidemic strain. Using arbitrarily primed BOX-PCR, we have determined that, of 10 nontypeable pneumococci causing sporadic conjunctivitis, 5 were clonal and closely related to a previous outbreak strain, whereas 5 others were genetically diverse.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Genetic Relatedness among Nontypeable Pneumococci Implicated in Sporadic Cases of Conjunctivitis
- Creators
- Jason H Barker - Department of Medicine, Baylor College of MedicineDaniel M Musher - Department of Medicine, Baylor College of MedicineRonald Silberman - Department of Medicine, Baylor College of MedicineHoang M Phan - Department of Medicine, Baylor College of MedicineDavid A Watson - Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of clinical microbiology, Vol.37(12), pp.4039-4041
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- DOI
- 10.1128/JCM.37.12.4039-4041.1999
- PMID
- 10565927
- PMCID
- PMC85874
- ISSN
- 0095-1137
- eISSN
- 1098-660X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/1999
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094708902771
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