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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, November 2003, p. 4966-4970, Vol. 41, No. 11
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.11.4966-4970.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Geographic Distribution and Clonal Diversity of Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 1 Isolates

Angela B. Brueggemann1,2* and Brian G. Spratt3

Academic Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease,1 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford, Oxford,2 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Hospital, London, United Kingdom3

Received 28 May 2003/ Returned for modification 22 July 2003/ Accepted 30 July 2003

Serotype 1 pneumococci are a major cause of serious disease and have been associated with outbreaks but are rarely carried. The high attack rate and lack of coverage of this serotype by the heptavalent conjugate vaccine prompted the characterization of a geographically diverse collection of 166 serotype 1 isolates from recent cases of invasive disease. The isolates were resolved by multilocus sequence typing into 16 clones, which clustered into three major lineages with very different geographic distributions. Lineage A isolates were exclusively from Europe and North America, lineage B isolates were predominantly from Africa and Israel, and lineage C isolates were mainly from Chile. There was no clear association between the presence of individual clones within a country and the prevalence of serotype 1 disease.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of Oxford, Department of Microbiology, Level 7, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom. Phone: 44 1865 220892. Fax: 44 1865 764192. E-mail: angela.brueggemann{at}ndcls.ox.ac.uk.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, November 2003, p. 4966-4970, Vol. 41, No. 11
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.11.4966-4970.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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