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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2000, p. 458-459, Vol. 38, No. 1
Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Municipal
Ho-Ping Hospital,1 Departments of
Laboratory Medicine,2 Internal
Medicine,3 and
Pediatrics,5 National Taiwan University
Hospital, and School of Medical Technology, National Taiwan
University Medical College,4 Taipei, Taiwan
Received 6 July 1999/Returned for modification 24 August
1999/Accepted 22 September 1999
Two isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae having
different optochin susceptibilities were recovered from a blood sample
of a 2-year-old boy with community-acquired pneumonia. The two isolates were documented to belong to a single clone on the basis of the isolates' identical serotype (23F), antibiograms by the E-test, random
amplified polymorphic DNA patterns generated by arbitrarily primed PCR,
pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and restriction fragment length
polymorphism of the penicillin-binding protein genes pbp2b
and pbp2x.
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Bacteremic Pneumonia Caused by a Single Clone of
Streptococcus pneumoniae with Different Optochin
Susceptibilities
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan
South Rd., 10016 Taipei, Taiwan. Phone: 886-2-23970800-5138. Fax:
886-2-23934749. E-mail:
pinging{at}ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw.
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