Persistence and Complex Evolution of Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Clone
Debby Ben-David
, Mitchell J. Schwaber, Amos Adler, Samira Masarwa, Rotem Edgar, Shiri Navon-Venezia, David Schwartz, Nurith Porat, Tali Kotlovsky, Nikolay Polivkin, Irina Weinberg, Avraham Lazary, Nissim Ohana, and Ron Dagan
Author affiliations: National Center for Infection Control, Tel Aviv, Israel (D. Ben-David, M.J. Schwaber, A. Adler, S. Masarwa, R. Edgar, S. Navon-Venezia); Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv (D. Schwartz, N. Porat, T. Kotlovsky, R. Dagan); Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva (N. Porat, R. Dagan); Reuth Medical Center, Tel Aviv (N. Polivkin, I. Weinberg, A. Lazary, N. Ohana)
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Figure 1. Serotyping and clonal analysis of the first point-prevalence survey of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection in a post–acute care facility, Israel, 2006–2011FQ fluoroquinolone; ST, sequence type; FQISP, fluoroquinolone-intermediate Spneumoniae; FQRSP fluoroquinolone-resistant Spneumoniae.
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