New Microbes and New Infections (May 2017)

First report of serotype 23B Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from an adult patient with invasive infection in Japan

  • A. Takamatsu,
  • M. Kawaguchiya,
  • B. Chang,
  • M. Ito,
  • Y. Hirano,
  • S. Katsuta,
  • S. Matsuzaka,
  • Y. Serizawa,
  • N. Kobayashi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2017.02.008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. C
pp. 96 – 97

Abstract

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Serotype 23B Streptococcus pneumoniae was isolated from a 67-year-old Japanese patient with meningitis. This isolate was susceptible to penicillin G, while genotyped as gPISP with a mutation in a penicillin-binding motif in PBP2b. The 23B isolate was assigned to ST11996 that is related to CC439, a dominant group among serotype 23B.

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