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2000 • 16,578 citations

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1998 • 3,708 citations

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1998 • 1,068 citations

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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

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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

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1990 • 292 citations

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1997 • 273 citations

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1996 • 227 citations

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

1999 • 226 citations

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1998 • 217 citations

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1995 • 165 citations

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1998 • 158 citations

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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

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

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

1994 • 47 citations

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1998 • 45 citations

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1995 • 42 citations

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1996 • 41 citations

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

1997 • 36 citations

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1997 • 30 citations

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1998 • 29 citations

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1955 • 0 citations