Recombination in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Streptococcus pneumoniae</named-content> Lineages Increase with Carriage Duration and Size of the Polysaccharide Capsule

Recombination in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Streptococcus pneumoniae</named-content> Lineages Increase with Carriage Duration and Size of the Polysaccharide Capsule

ABSTRACT Streptococcus pneumoniae causes a high burden of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) globally, especially in children from resource-poor settings. Like many bacteria, the pneumococcus can import DNA from other strains or even species by transformation and homologous recombination, which has...

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Autores principales: Chrispin Chaguza, Cheryl P. Andam, Simon R. Harris, Jennifer E. Cornick, Marie Yang, Laura Bricio-Moreno, Arox W. Kamng’ona, Julian Parkhill, Neil French, Robert S. Heyderman, Aras Kadioglu, Dean B. Everett, Stephen D. Bentley, William P. Hanage
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Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2016
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Microbiology
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