Volume 18, Number 5—May 2012
Research
Epidemic of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease, Western Canada, 2005–2009
Figure 4

Figure 4. . . Restriction fragment length polymorphism pattern of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 5 from epidemic in western Canada, 2000–2009 (epidemic clone), determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The Colombia5-19 strain is from the Pneumococcal Molecular Epidemiology Network (www.sph.emory.edu/PMEN) (17).
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1Current affiliation: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
2Current affiliation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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