Identification of the Major Spanish Clones of Penicillin-Resistant Pneumococci via the Internet Using Multilocus Sequence Typing

Multilocus sequence typing: A portable approach to the identification of clones within populations of pathogenic microorganisms

1998 • 3,708 citations

A multilocus sequence typing scheme for Streptococcus pneumoniae: identification of clones associated with serious invasive disease

1998 • 1,068 citations

Intercontinental Spread of a Multiresistant Clone of Serotype 23F Streptococcus pneumoniae

1991 • 424 citations

Evidence for the Introduction of a Multiresistant Clone of Serotype 6B Streptococcus pneumoniae from Spain to Iceland in the Late 1980s

1993 • 326 citations

Horizontal transfer of multiple penicillin‐binding protein genes, and capsular biosynthetic genes, in natural populations of Streptococcus pneumoniae

1991 • 315 citations

Recombinational exchanges at the capsular polysaccharide biosynthetic locus lead to frequent serotype changes among natural isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae

1998 • 313 citations

Serotype Distribution and Antimicrobial Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates Causing Systematic Infections in Spain, 1979-1989

1990 • 292 citations

Antibiotic Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae

1997 • 273 citations

Estimating Recombinational Parameters in Streptococcus pneumoniae From Multilocus Sequence Typing Data

2000 • 259 citations

Serogroup-Specific Epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Associations with Age, Sex, and Geography in 7,000 Episodes of Invasive Disease

1996 • 227 citations

Multilocus sequence typing: molecular typing of bacterial pathogens in an era of rapid DNA sequencing and the Internet

1999 • 226 citations

Evolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotypes and Antibiotic Resistance in Spain: Update (1990 to 1996)

1998 • 217 citations

An evaluation of the susceptibility patterns of Gram-negative organisms isolated in cancer centres with aminoglycoside usage

1991 • 165 citations

Molecular Characterization of Penicillin-ResistantStreptococcus pneumoniaeIsolates Causing Respiratory Disease in the United States

1998 • 158 citations

Penicillin-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Strains Recovered in Houston: Identification and Molecular Characterization of Multiple Clones

1993 • 149 citations

Genetic relationships of penicillin-susceptible and -resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains isolated on different continents

1992 • 124 citations

Identification of Three Major Clones of Multiply Antibiotic-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Taiwanese Hospitals by Multilocus Sequence Typing

1998 • 107 citations

Serotype 14 variants of the Spanish penicillin-resistant serotype 9V clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae arose by large recombinational replacements of the cpsA-pbp1a region

1999 • 93 citations

A guide to sensitivity testing. Report of the Working Party on Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

1991 • 88 citations

Amantadine prophylaxis for health care workers: unanswered questions

1991 • 82 citations

Extensive variation in the ddl gene of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae results from a hitchhiking effect driven by the penicillin-binding protein 2b gene

1999 • 82 citations

Molecular Epidemiology of Drug-Resistant Pneumococci: Toward an International Approach

1997 • 72 citations

Multiply antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae recovered from Spanish hospitals (1988-1994): novel major clones of serotypes 14, 19F and 15F

1996 • 71 citations

Antimicrobial susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae: serotype distribution of penicillin-resistant strains in Spain

1982 • 67 citations

The Three Major Spanish Clones of Penicillin-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Are the Most Common Clones Recovered in Recent Cases of Meningitis in Spain

1999 • 67 citations

Serotype 19A Variants of the Spanish Serotype 23F Multiresistant Clone ofStreptococcus pneumoniae

1998 • 61 citations

Novel Penicillin-Resistant Clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia

1995 • 59 citations

Molecular analysis by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of penicillin-resistantStreptococcus pneumoniae from Toulouse, France

1995 • 49 citations

Subtyping of Common Pediatric Pneumococcal Serotypes from Invasive Disease and Pharyngeal Carriage in Finland

1996 • 49 citations

Cluster of an erythromycin-resistant variant of the Spanish multiply resistant 23F clone ofStreptococcus pneumoniae in South Africa

1994 • 47 citations

Multiple antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae

1998 • 45 citations

Epidemiology, Control and Treatment of Multiresistant Pneumococci

1996 • 41 citations

Three Predominant Clones Identified Within Penicillin-Resistant South African Isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae

1997 • 39 citations

Spread of the Spanish Multi-Resistant Serotype 23F Clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae to Seoul, Korea

1997 • 36 citations

Molecular Analysis of the Genetic Variation among Penicillin‐Susceptible and Penicillin‐ResistantStreptococcus pneumoniaeSerotypes in Canada

1999 • 33 citations

Spread of the Serotype 23F Multidrug-ResistantStreptococcus pneumoniaeClone to South Korea

1997 • 30 citations

The Apparent Importation of Penicillin-Resistant Capsular Type 14 Spanish/French Clone ofStreptococcus pneumoniaeinto Uruguay in the Early 1990s

1998 • 29 citations

Structural Organization of theStreptococcus pneumoniaeChromosome and Relatedness of Penicillin-Sensitive and -Resistant Strains in Type 9V

1997 • 9 citations

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1955 • 0 citations