Respiratory & Systemic Infection Laboratory, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ, United Kingdom.
J Clin Microbiol. 2010 May;48(5):1926-8. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02054-09. Epub 2010 Feb 17.
In winter 2007-2008, an outbreak of pediatric pneumonia caused by serotype 5 pneumococci was identified in a northeast London suburb. Variable number of tandem repeat analyses clustered these pneumococci from the other serotype 5 pneumococci in the United Kingdom, highlighting the importance of this discriminative typing method in supporting epidemiological investigations.
2007-2008 年冬季,在伦敦东北部郊区发现了由 5 型肺炎球菌引起的小儿肺炎爆发。多位点串联重复分析将这些肺炎球菌与英国其他 5 型肺炎球菌聚类,突出了这种有鉴别能力的分型方法在支持流行病学调查中的重要性。