First report of serotype 23B Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from an adult patient with invasive infection in Japan. (May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Takamatsu, A.; Kawaguchiya, M.; Chang, B.; Ito, M.; Hirano, Y.; Katsuta, S.; Matsuzaka, S.; Serizawa, Y.; Kobayashi, N.
• Is Part Of: New microbes and new infections. Volume 17(2017)
• Page Start: 96
• Page End: 97
• Publication Date: 2017-05
• Subjects: Invasive infection -- Japan -- serotype 23B -- Streptococcus pneumoniae; Medical microbiology -- Periodicals; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; Infection -- Periodicals; Microbiology -- Periodicals; Communicable Diseases -- Periodicals; Infection -- Periodicals; 616.9041
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2017.02.008
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2052-2975

Abstract

Abstract: 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.