Abstract
In winter 2007-2008, an outbreak of pediatric pneumonia caused by serotype 5 pneumococci was identified in a northeast London suburb. Variable number of tandem repeat analyses clustered these pneumococci from the other serotype 5 pneumococci in the United Kingdom, highlighting the importance of this discriminative typing method in supporting epidemiological investigations.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1926-1928 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Journal of Clinical Microbiology |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2010 |