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Volume 12, Number 11—November 2006
Research

Serotype Competence and Penicillin Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Yu-Chia Hsieh*, Jin-Town Wang†, Wen-Sen Lee*, Po-Ren Hsueh†Comments to Author , Pei-Lan Shao†, Luan-Yin Chang†, Chun-Yi Lu†, Chin-Yun Lee†, Fu-Yuan Huang‡, and Li-Min Huang†Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Taipei Medical University-WanFang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; †National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; ‡Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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Table

Percentage of PSSP, PISP, and PRSP in each serotype*

Degree of susceptibility Serotype
6B, n = 23 (%) 14, n = 20 (%) 19F, n = 21 (%) 9V, n = 14 (%) 23F, n = 26 (%) 3, n = 11 (%) 18C, n = 3 (%)
PSSP (MIC £0.06 μg/mL) 2 (8.7) 7 (35) 4 (19) 3 (21.4) 1 (3.8) 11 (100) 3 (100)
PISP (MIC 0.1–1 μg/mL) 18 (78.3) 10 (50) 12 (57.1) 5 (35.7) 19 (73.1) 0 0
PRSP (MIC >2 μg/mL) 3 (13) 3 (15) 5 (23.8) 6 (42.9) 6 (23.1) 0 0

*PSSP, penicillin-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae; PISP, penicillin-intermediate S. pneumoniae; PRSP, penicillin-resistant S. pneumoniae.

*PSSP, penicillin-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae; PISP, penicillin-intermediate S. pneumoniae; PRSP, penicillin-resistant S. pneumoniae.

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Po-Ren Hsueh and Li-Min Huang contributed equally to this work

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