Abstract
The molecular epidemiological characteristics of pneumococcal meningitis in children were studied. Pneumococcal isolates were characterized by serotyping and two genotyping methods, BOX fingerprinting and restriction fragment end labeling, to evaluate whether clonal strains were present within the serotypes or serogroups. During a 17-year period, 68 children admitted to the Sophia Children's Hospital were diagnosed with meningitis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae. Pneumococcal isolates from 44 patients were still available for analysis. All strains were susceptible to penicillin. Serotypes/ serogroups 14, 19, 6, and 18 represented 56% of all isolates. The results of the molecular typing methods demonstrate the absence of clonal relatedness between isolates from patients with pneumococcal meningitis
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 635-638 |
| Journal | European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1996 |
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