Recent publications using MLST in Streptococcus research
The following is a list of recent publications that use or mention MLST in research on Streptococcus. The list is generated automatically and includes references published in the last two years.
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List generated: 2008-10-12.
Onwubiko C, Swiatlo E, McDaniel LS. Cross-Sectional Study of Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in HIV-Infected Adults in the Conjugate-Vaccine Era. J Clin Microbiol 2008, [Epub ahead of print]: |
Thomas JC, Pettigrew MM. Multilocus sequence typing and pulsed field gel electrophoresis of otitis media causing pathogens. Methods Mol Biol 2009, 493:179-90 |
Webb K, Jolley KA, Mitchell Z, Robinson C, Newton JR, Maiden MC, Waller A. Development of an unambiguous and discriminatory multilocus sequence typing scheme for the Streptococcus zooepidemicus group. Microbiology 2008, 154:3016-24 |
Soriano F, Cafini F, Aguilar L, Tarrago D, Alou L, Gimenez MJ, Gracia M, Ponte MC, Leu D, Pana M, Letowska I, Fenoll A. Breakthrough in penicillin resistance? Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates with penicillin/cefotaxime MICs of 16 mg/L and their genotypic and geographical relatedness. J Antimicrob Chemother 2008, [Epub ahead of print]: |
Domelier AS, van der Mee-Marquet N, Arnault L, Mereghetti L, Lanotte P, Rosenau A, Lartigue MF, Quentin R. Molecular characterization of erythromycin-resistant Streptococcus agalactiae strains. J Antimicrob Chemother 2008, [Epub ahead of print]: |
Obando I, Munoz-Almagro C, Arroyo LA, Tarrago D, Sanchez-Tatay D, Moreno-Perez D, Dhillon SS, Esteva C, Hernandez-Bou S, Garcia-Garcia JJ, Hausdorff WP, Brueggemann AB. Pediatric Parapneumonic Empyema, Spain. Emerg Infect Dis 2008, 14:1390-1397 |
Melin MM, Hollingshead SK, Briles DE, Hanage WP, Lahdenkari M, Kaijalainen T, Kilpi TM, Kayhty HM. Pneumococcal Surface Protein A Families 1 and 2 in Acute Otitis Media and Nasopharyngeal Carriage Isolates of Finnish Children. Clin Vaccine Immunol 2008, [Epub ahead of print]: |
Wang HM, Ke CW, Pan WB, Ke BX, Chen JD, Deng XL, Liu MZ, Chen GR, Yang XF, Zhu ZY. [MLST typing of Streptococcus suis isolated from clinical patients in Guangdong Province in 2005.] Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao 2008, 28:1438-41 |
Yang F, Xu XG, Yang MJ, Zhang YY, Klugman KP, McGee L. Antimicrobial susceptibility and molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from Shanghai, China. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2008, [Epub ahead of print]: |
Honsa E, Fricke T, Stephens AJ, Ko D, Kong F, Gilbert GL, Huygens F, Giffard PM. Assignment of Streptococcus agalactiae isolates to clonal complexes using a small set of single nucleotide polymorphisms. BMC Microbiol 2008, 8:140 |
Reis JN, Palma T, Ribeiro GS, Pinheiro RM, Ribeiro CT, Cordeiro SM, da Silva Filho HP, Moschioni M, Thompson TA, Spratt B, Riley LW, Barocchi MA, Reis MG, Ko AI. Transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae in an urban slum community. J Infect 2008, 57:204-13 |
Gherardi G, D'Ambrosio F, Monaco M, Camilli R, De Florio L, D'Ancona F, Dicuonzo G, Pantosti A. Population structure of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Italy prior to the implementation of the 7-valent conjugate vaccine (1999-2003). Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2008, [Epub ahead of print]: |
van der Mee-Marquet N, Fourny L, Arnault L, Domelier AS, Salloum M, Lartigue MF, Quentin R. Molecular characterization of human-colonizing Streptococcus agalactiae strains isolated from throat, skin, anal margin, and genital body sites. J Clin Microbiol 2008, 46:2906-11 |
Albarracin Orio AG, Cortes PR, Tregnaghi M, Pinas GE, Echenique JR. A new serotype 14 variant of the pneumococcal Spain9V-3 international clone detected in the central region of Argentina. J Med Microbiol 2008, 57:992-9 |
Olver WJ, Cavanagh J, Quinn M, Diggle M, Edwards GF. Investigation and control of a cluster of penicillin non-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae infections in a care home. J Hosp Infect 2008, 70:80-3 |
Ongkasuwan J, Valdez TA, Hulten KG, Mason EO, Kaplan SL. Pneumococcal mastoiditis in children and the emergence of multidrug-resistant serotype 19A isolates. Pediatrics 2008, 122:34-9 |
Martynova AV, Turkutiukov VB. [Molecular biological monitoring for Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from patients with invasive pneumococcal infection] Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol 2008, [Epub ahead of print]:31-4 |
Sombrero L, Nissinen A, Esparar G, Lindgren M, Siira L, Virolainen A. Low incidence of antibiotic resistance among invasive and nasopharyngeal isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae from children in rural Philippines between 1994 and 2000. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2008, [Epub ahead of print]: |
Isozumi R, Ito Y, Ishida T, Hirai T, Ito I, Maniwa K, Hayashi M, Kagioka H, Hirabayashi M, Onaru K, Tomioka H, Tomii K, Gohma I, Osawa M, Imai S, Takakura S, Iinuma Y, Chin K, Ichiyama S, Mishima M. Molecular characteristics of serotype 3 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates among community-acquired pneumonia patients in Japan. J Infect Chemother 2008, 14:258-261 |
Amrine-Madsen H, Van Eldere J, Mera RM, Miller LA, Poupard JA, Thomas ES, Halsey WS, Becker JA, O'Hara FP. Temporal and spatial distribution of clonal complexes of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates resistant to multiple classes of antibiotics in Belgium, 1997 to 2004. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2008, 52:3216-20 |
Antonio M, Dada-Adegbola H, Biney E, Awine T, O'Callaghan J, Pfluger V, Enwere G, Okoko B, Oluwalana C, Vaughan A, Zaman SM, Pluschke G, Greenwood BM, Cutts F, Adegbola RA. Molecular epidemiology of pneumococci obtained from Gambian children aged 2-29 months with invasive pneumococcal disease during a trial of a 9-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. BMC Infect Dis 2008, 8:81 |
Tian SF, Chu YZ, Chen BY. Molecular characteristics of penicillin-binding protein 2b, 2x, and 1a sequences in penicillin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Shenyang, China. Can J Microbiol 2008, 54:489-494 |
Vestrheim DF, Hoiby A, Aaberge IS, Caugant DA. Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains colonizing children attending day-care centers in Norway. J Clin Microbiol 2008, 46:2508-18 |
Aguero J, Ortega-Mendi M, Eliecer Cano M, Gonzalez de Aledo A, Calvo J, Viloria L, Mellado P, Pelayo T, Fernandez-Rodriguez A, Martinez-Martinez L. Outbreak of invasive group A streptococcal disease among children attending a day-care center. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2008, 27:602-4 |
Bagnoli F, Moschioni M, Donati C, Dimitrovska V, Ferlenghi I, Facciotti C, Muzzi A, Giusti F, Emolo C, Sinisi A, Hilleringmann M, Pansegrau W, Censini S, Rappuoli R, Covacci A, Masignani V, Barocchi MA. A second pilus type in Streptococcus pneumoniae is prevalent in emerging serotypes and mediates adhesion to host cells. J Bacteriol 2008, 190:5480-92 |
Manning SD, Lewis MA, Springman AC, Lehotzky E, Whittam TS, Davies HD. Genotypic diversity and serotype distribution of group B streptococcus isolated from women before and after delivery. Clin Infect Dis 2008, 46:1829-37 |
Moore MR, Gertz Jr RE, Woodbury RL, Barkocy-Gallagher GA, Schaffner W, Lexau C, Gershman K, Reingold A, Farley M, Harrison LH, Hadler JL, Bennett NM, Thomas AR, McGee L, Pilishvili T, Brueggemann AB, Whitney CG, Jorgensen JH, Beall B. Population Snapshot of Emergent Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 19A in the United States, 2005. J Infect Dis 2008, 197:1016-1027 |
Cortes PR, Orio AG, Regueira M, Pinas GE, Echenique J. Characterization of in vitro-generated and clinical optochin-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from Argentina. J Clin Microbiol 2008, 46:1930-4 |
Bessen DE, McGregor KF, Whatmore AM. Relationships between emm and multilocus sequence types within a global collection of Streptococcus pyogenes. BMC Microbiol 2008, 8:59 |
Takamatsu D, Osaki M, Tharavichitkul P, Takai S, Sekizaki T. Allelic variation and prevalence of serum opacity factor among the Streptococcus suis population. J Med Microbiol 2008, 57:488-94 |
Foster D, Knox K, Walker AS, Griffiths DT, Moore H, Haworth E, Peto T, Brueggemann AB, Crook DW. Invasive pneumococcal disease: epidemiology in children and adults prior to implementation of the conjugate vaccine in the Oxfordshire region, England. J Med Microbiol 2008, 57:480-487 |
Wolter N, von Gottberg A, du Plessis M, de Gouveia L, Klugman KP. Molecular basis and clonal nature of increasing pneumococcal macrolide resistance in South Africa, 2000-2005. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2008, 32:62-7 |
Bohnsack JF, Whiting A, Gottschalk M, Dunn DM, Weiss R, Azimi PH, Philips JB, Weisman LE, Rhoads GG, Lin FY. Population structure of invasive and colonizing strains of Streptococcus agalactiae from neonates of six U.S. Academic Centers from 1995 to 1999. J Clin Microbiol 2008, 46:1285-91 |
Moschioni M, Donati C, Muzzi A, Masignani V, Censini S, Hanage WP, Bishop CJ, Reis JN, Normark S, Henriques-Normark B, Covacci A, Rappuoli R, Barocchi MA. Streptococcus pneumoniae contains 3 rlrA pilus variants that are clonally related. J Infect Dis 2008, 197:888-96 |
Choi E, Kim S, Eun B, Kim N, Lee J, Lee H. Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 19A in Children, South Korea. Emerg Infect Dis 2008, 14:275-281 |
Mai NT, Hoa NT, Nga TV, Linh LD, Chau TT, Sinh DX, Phu NH, Chuong LV, Diep TS, Campbell J, Nghia HD, Minh TN, Chau NV, de Jong MD, Chinh NT, Hien TT, Farrar J, Schultsz C. Streptococcus suis Meningitis in Adults in Vietnam. Clin Infect Dis 2008, [Epub ahead of print]: |
Xiong Z, Wei C, Yang J, Peng J, Xu X, Wang Y, Jin Q. Comparative analysis of whole genome structure of Streptococcus suis using whole genome PCR scanning. Sci China C Life Sci 2008, 51:21-6 |
Izdebski R, Rutschmann J, Fiett J, Sadowy E, Gniadkowski M, Hryniewicz W, Hakenbeck R. Highly Variable Penicillin Resistance Determinants PBP 2x, PBP 2b, and PBP 1a in Isolates of Two Streptococcus pneumoniae Clonal Groups, Poland23F-16 and Poland6B-20. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2008, 52:1021-7 |
Dagerhamn J, Blomberg C, Browall S, Sjostrom K, Morfeldt E, Henriques-Normark B. Determination of accessory gene patterns predicts the same relatedness among strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae as sequencing of housekeeping genes does and represents a novel approach in molecular epidemiology. J Clin Microbiol 2008, 46:863-8 |
Lopez-Benavides MG, Williamson JH, Pullinger GD, Lacy-Hulbert SJ, Cursons RT, Leigh JA. Field observations on the variation of Streptococcus uberis populations in a pasture-based dairy farm. J Dairy Sci 2007, 90:5558-66 |
Tomita T, Meehan B, Wongkattiya N, Malmo J, Pullinger G, Leigh J, Deighton M. Identification of Streptococcus uberis multilocus sequence types highly associated with mastitis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2008, 74:114-24 |
Nunes S, Sa-Leao R, Pereira LC, Lencastre H. Emergence of a serotype 1 Streptococcus pneumoniae lineage colonising healthy children in Portugal in the seven-valent conjugate vaccination era. Clin Microbiol Infect 2008, 14:82-4 |
Lipsitch M, O'Neill K, Cordy D, Bugalter B, Trzcinski K, Thompson CM, Goldstein R, Pelton S, Huot H, Bouchet V, Reid R, Santosham M, O'Brien KL. Strain characteristics of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage and invasive disease isolates during a cluster-randomized clinical trial of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. J Infect Dis 2007, 196:1221-7 |
Mavroidi A, Paraskakis I, Pangalis A, Kirikou E, Charisiadou A, Athanasiou T, Tassios PT, Tzouvelekis LS. Spread of the Streptococcus pneumoniae Taiwan19F-14 clone among children in Greece. Clin Microbiol Infect 2007, 13:1213-6 |
Shariff M, Thukral SS, Beall B. New multilocus sequence types of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from patients with respiratory infections in India. Indian J Med Res 2007, 126:161-4 |
Martins ER, Florindo C, Martins F, Aldir I, Borrego MJ, Brum L, Ramirez M, Melo-Cristino J. Streptococcus agalactiae serotype Ib as an agent of meningitis in two adult nonpregnant women. J Clin Microbiol 2007, 45:3850-2 |
Obert CA, Gao G, Sublett J, Tuomanen EI, Orihuela CJ. Assessment of molecular typing methods to determine invasiveness and to differentiate clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Infect Genet Evol 2007, 7:708-16 |
Martins ER, Pessanha MA, Ramirez M, Melo-Cristino J. Analysis of group B streptococcal isolates from infants and pregnant women in Portugal revealing two lineages with enhanced invasiveness. J Clin Microbiol 2007, 45:3224-9 |
Sheppard CL, Salmon JE, Harrison TG, Lyons M, George RC. The clinical and public health value of non-culture methods in the investigation of a cluster of unexplained pneumonia cases. Epidemiol Infect 2008, 136:922-7 |
Sunakawa K, Farrell DJ. Mechanisms, molecular and sero-epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in bacterial respiratory pathogens isolated from Japanese children. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob 2007, 6:7 |
Salerno A, Deletoile A, Lefevre M, Ciznar I, Krovacek K, Grimont P, Brisse S. Recombining population structure of Plesiomonas shigelloides (Enterobacteriaceae) revealed by multilocus sequence typing. J Bacteriol 2007, 189:7808-18 |
Gherardi G, Imperi M, Baldassarri L, Pataracchia M, Alfarone G, Recchia S, Orefici G, Dicuonzo G, Creti R. Molecular epidemiology and distribution of serotypes, surface proteins, and antibiotic resistance among group B streptococci in Italy. J Clin Microbiol 2007, 45:2909-16 |
Chi F, Leider M, Leendertz F, Bergmann C, Boesch C, Schenk S, Pauli G, Ellerbrok H, Hakenbeck R. New Streptococcus pneumoniae clones in deceased wild chimpanzees. J Bacteriol 2007, 189:6085-8 |
Nakano K, Lapirattanakul J, Nomura R, Nemoto H, Alaluusua S, Gronroos L, Vaara M, Hamada S, Ooshima T, Nakagawa I. Streptococcus mutans clonal variation revealed by multilocus sequence typing. J Clin Microbiol 2007, 45:2616-25 |
Ip M, Chau SS, Chi F, Tang J, Chan PK. Fluoroquinolone resistance in atypical pneumococci and oral streptococci: evidence of horizontal gene transfer of fluoroquinolone resistance determinants from Streptococcus pneumoniae. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2007, 51:2690-700 |
Sogstad MK, Littauer P, Aaberge IS, Caugant DA, Hoiby EA. Rapid spread in Norway of an erythromycin-resistant pneumococcal clone, despite low usage of macrolides. Microb Drug Resist 2007, 13:29-36 |
Blossom DB, Cordeiro SM, Bajaksouzian S, Joloba ML, Kityo C, Whalen CC, Salata RA, Jacobs MR. Characterization of penicillin intermediate serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae carried by human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults and healthy children in Uganda. Microb Drug Resist 2007, 13:21-8 |
Pelton SI, Huot H, Finkelstein JA, Bishop CJ, Hsu KK, Kellenberg J, Huang SS, Goldstein R, Hanage WP. Emergence of 19A as virulent and multidrug resistant Pneumococcus in Massachusetts following universal immunization of infants with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2007, 26:468-72 |
Messina AF, Katz-Gaynor K, Barton T, Ahmad N, Ghaffar F, Rasko D, McCracken GH. Impact of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on serotype distribution and antimicrobial resistance of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Dallas, TX, children from 1999 through 2005. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2007, 26:461-7 |
Watson M, Brett M, Brown M, Stewart MG, Warren S. Pneumococci responsible for invasive disease and discharging ears in children in Sydney, Australia. J Med Microbiol 2007, 56:819-23 |
Stanhope MJ, Walsh SL, Becker JA, Miller LA, Lefebure T, Lang P, Bitar PD, Amrine-Madsen H. The relative frequency of intraspecific lateral gene transfer of penicillin binding proteins 1a, 2b, and 2x, in amoxicillin resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae. Infect Genet Evol 2007, 7:520-34 |
Tong Z, Kong F, Wang B, Zeng X, Gilbert GL. A practical method for subtyping of Streptococcus agalactiae serotype III, of human origin, using rolling circle amplification. J Microbiol Methods 2007, 70:39-44 |
Friaes A, Ramirez M, Melo-Cristino J. Nonoutbreak surveillance of group A streptococci causing invasive disease in Portugal identified internationally disseminated clones among members of a genetically heterogeneous population. J Clin Microbiol 2007, 45:2044-7 |
Chi F, Nolte O, Bergmann C, Ip M, Hakenbeck R. Crossing the barrier: evolution and spread of a major class of mosaic pbp2x in Streptococcus pneumoniae, S. mitis and S. oralis. Int J Med Microbiol 2007, 297:503-12 |
Bishop EJ, Shilton C, Benedict S, Kong F, Gilbert GL, Gal D, Godoy D, Spratt BG, Currie BJ. Necrotizing fasciitis in captive juvenile Crocodylus porosus caused by Streptococcus agalactiae: an outbreak and review of the animal and human literature. Epidemiol Infect 2007, 135:1248-55 |
Zemlickova H, Jakubu V, Urbaskova P. Dissemination of a capsular and antibiotype variant of the England-9 pneumococcal clone in the Czech Republic. Clin Microbiol Infect 2007, 13:648-51 |
Strakova L, Motlova J, Jakubu V, Urbaskova P, Kriz P. Emergence of a novel macrolide-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes emm53 strain. Clin Microbiol Infect 2007, 13:443-5 |
Reinert RR, Linden M, Seegmuller I, Al-Lahham A, Siedler A, Weissmann B, Toschke AM, Kries R. Molecular epidemiology of penicillin-non-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from children with invasive pneumococcal disease in Germany. Clin Microbiol Infect 2007, 13:363-8 |
Perez-Trallero E, Montes M, Orden B, Tamayo E, Garcia-Arenzana JM, Marimon JM. Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Streptococcus pyogenes isolates displaying the MLSB phenotype of macrolide resistance in Spain, 1999 to 2005. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2007, 51:1228-33 |
Izdebski R, Sadowy E, Fiett J, Grzesiowski P, Gniadkowski M, Hryniewicz W. Clonal diversity and resistance mechanisms in tetracycline-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Poland. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2007, 51:1155-63 |
Hanage WP, Huang SS, Lipsitch M, Bishop CJ, Godoy D, Pelton SI, Goldstein R, Huot H, Finkelstein JA. Diversity and antibiotic resistance among nonvaccine serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage isolates in the post-heptavalent conjugate vaccine era. J Infect Dis 2007, 195:347-52 |
Hathaway LJ, Brugger S, Martynova A, Aebi S, Muhlemann K. Use of the Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer for rapid and reproducible molecular typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Clin Microbiol 2007, 45:803-9 |
Chang B, Wada A, Ikebe T, Ohnishi M, Mita K, Endo M, Matsuo H, Asatuma Y, Kuramoto S, Sekiguchi H, Yamazaki M, Yoshikawa H, Watabe N, Yamada H, Kurita S, Imai Y, Watanabe H. Characteristics of Streptococcus suis isolated from patients in Japan. Jpn J Infect Dis 2006, 59:397-9 |
Rehm T, Baums CG, Strommenger B, Beyerbach M, Valentin-Weigand P, Goethe R. Amplified fragment length polymorphism of Streptococcus suis strains correlates with their profile of virulence-associated genes and clinical background. J Med Microbiol 2007, 56:102-9 |
Luey CK, Chu YW, Cheung TK, Law CC, Chu MY, Cheung DT, Kam KM. Rapid pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocol for subtyping of Streptococcus suis serotype 2. J Microbiol Methods 2007, 68:648-50 |
Gherardi G, Fallico L, Grosso M, Bonanni F, D'Ambrosio F, Manganelli R, Palu G, Dicuonzo G, Pantosti A. Antibiotic-resistant invasive pneumococcal clones in Italy. J Clin Microbiol 2007, 45:306-12 |
Delorme C, Poyart C, Ehrlich SD, Renault P. Extent of horizontal gene transfer in evolution of Streptococci of the salivarius group. J Bacteriol 2007, 189:1330-41 |
Sadowy E, Izdebski R, Skoczynska A, Grzesiowski P, Gniadkowski M, Hryniewicz W. Phenotypic and molecular analysis of penicillin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Poland. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2007, 51:40-7 |