title: Identification of multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains isolated in Poland by multilocus sequence typing.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Sera & Vaccines Central Research Laboratory, 00-725 Warsaw, Poland. ewasadowy@cls.edu.pl
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sadowy
authors.forename: Jiaji
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Meats
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gniadkowski
authors.forename: Brian G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Spratt
authors.forename: Waleria
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hryniewicz
mesh_terms: 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