title: Simultaneous nasopharyngeal carriage of two pneumococcal multilocus sequence types with a serotype 3 phenotype.
abstract: Knowledge of the epidemiology of pneumococcal disease in Bolivia is sparse, and Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) of isolates has not been previously possible. Beni state has until recently been a geographically isolated region of the Bolivian Amazon basin and is a region of significant poverty. During June and July 2007, we performed a pneumococcal carriage study recruiting over 600 schoolchildren in two towns in the Beni state. Here, we describe the unique identification of simultaneous nasopharyngeal carriage of two pneumococcal multilocus sequence types with a serotype 3 phenotype within a single subject.
authors.affiliation: Monkland Hospital, Clinical Microbiology Department, Monklands General Hospital, Monkscourt Avenue, Airdrie, Lanarkshire ML5 0JS, UK.
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Inverarity
authors.forename: Mathew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diggle
authors.forename: Roisin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ure
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Santana-Hernandez
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Altstadt
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.forename: Giles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Edwards