Invasiveness of pneumococcal serotypes and clones circulating in Portugal before widespread use of conjugate vaccines revealing heterogeneous behavior of clones expressing the same serotype

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  • Raquel Sá-Leão
  • Francisco Pinto
  • Sandra Aguiar
  • Sónia Nunes
  • João A. Carriço
  • Natacha Gonçalves-Sousa
  • José Melo-Cristino
  • Hermínia de Lencastre
  • Mário Ramirez
چکیده

1 Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal; 2 Centro de Química e Bioquímica, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, 10 Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; 3 Instituto de Microbiologia, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; 4 Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA. 15 Corresponding author: Raquel Sá-Leão Mailing address: Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, Oeiras, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal. Phone: (351) 21 446 9872. Fax: (351) 21 4428766. E-mail: rsaleao@itqb.unl.pt 20 *These authors contributed equally to this work

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تاریخ انتشار 2011