Variation at the capsule locus, cps, of mistyped and non-typable Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates. Author(s): Salter SJ, Hinds J, Gould KA, Lambertsen L, Hanage WP, Antonio M, Turner P, Hermans PW, Bootsma HJ, O'Brien KL, Bentley SD|Journal: Microbiology|PMID: 22403189| June 2012 The capsule polysaccharide locus (cps) is the site of the capsule biosynthesis gene cluster in encapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae. A set…
High levels of recombination among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from the Gambia. Author(s): Donkor ES, Bishop CJ, Gould K, Hinds J, Antonio M, Wren B, Hanage WP|Journal: MBio|PMID: 21693638| June 2011 We carried out multilocus sequence typing (MLST) on 148 pneumococcal carriage isolates collected from children <24 months old in the…
