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Abstract
Various amino acid substitutions were identified in the three major penicillin-binding proteins (PBP1A, PBP2B and PBP2X) of eight clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 23F collected from children. The particular changes related to the level of penicillin resistance. Alterations were detected in an isolate with a penicillin MIC as low as 0.065mumg/L. These results confirm that the level of penicillin resistance in pneumococci reflects with sequential alterations of PBPs in clinical isolates.
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