PspA Family Distribution, Antimicrobial Resistance and Serotype of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolated from Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Japan

• Muneki Hotomi ,

  * E-mail: mhotomi@wakayama-med.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama-shi, Wakayama, Japan

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• Akihisa Togawa,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama-shi, Wakayama, Japan

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• Masamitsu Kono,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama-shi, Wakayama, Japan

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• Yorihiko Ikeda,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama-shi, Wakayama, Japan

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• Shin Takei,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama-shi, Wakayama, Japan

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• Susan K. Hollingshead,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Birmingham at Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• David E. Briles,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Birmingham at Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Kenji Suzuki,

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Second Hospital, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan, The Surveillance Subcommittee, The Japan Society for Infectious Diseases in Otolaryngology, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

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• Noboru Yamanaka

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama-shi, Wakayama, Japan, The Surveillance Subcommittee, The Japan Society for Infectious Diseases in Otolaryngology, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

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