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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2009, p. 472-474, Vol. 47, No. 2
0095-1137/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01984-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Temporal Trends and Molecular Epidemiology of Recently Described Serotype 6C of Streptococcus pneumoniae{triangledown}

Sónia Nunes,1,{dagger} Carina Valente,1,{dagger} Raquel Sá-Leão,1,2* and Hermínia de Lencastre1,3

Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal,1 Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal,2 Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York3

Received 14 October 2008/ Returned for modification 22 November 2008/ Accepted 1 December 2008

We studied the epidemiology of the recently described serotype 6C of Streptococcus pneumoniae among a collection of carriage isolates recovered between 1996 and 2007 in Portugal. Of 4,064 isolates, 106 (2.6%) were of serotype 6C, 17.9% of which were multidrug resistant. The strains were genetically diverse.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Rua da Quinta Grande, Oeiras, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal. Phone: 351 21 4469872. Fax: 351 21 4428766. E-mail: rsaleao{at}itqb.unl.pt

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 10 December 2008.

{dagger} S.N. and C.V. contributed equally to the study.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2009, p. 472-474, Vol. 47, No. 2
0095-1137/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01984-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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