Identification of multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains isolated in Poland by multilocus sequence typing.
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) of 35 isolates of multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae recovered in Poland during 1995-1996 distinguished 10 different sequence types (ST). The majority of the isolates were assigned to two Polish clones of serotypes 6B and 23F, although the international clones, Spain23F-1 and Spain9V-3, were also identified. Similar results were obtained using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), providing a direct comparison of these two typing methods.
Sadowy
Ewa
E
Sera & Vaccines Central Research Laboratory, 00-725 Warsaw, Poland. ewasadowy@cls.edu.pl
Zhou
Jiaji
J
Meats
Emma
E
Gniadkowski
Marek
M
Spratt
Brian G
BG
Hryniewicz
Waleria
W
D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D024901:Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D011044:Poland; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification