Monitoring the Long-Term Molecular Epidemiology of the Pneumococcus and Detection of Potential ‘Vaccine Escape’ Strains

Gagan A. Pandya; M. Catherine McEllistrem; Pratap Venepally; Michael H. Holmes; Behnam Jarrahi; Ravi Sanka; Jia Liu; Svetlana A. Karamycheva; Yun Bai; Robert D. Fleischmann; Scott N. Peterson

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015950

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Monitoring the Long-Term Molecular Epidemiology of the Pneumococcus and Detection of Potential ‘Vaccine Escape’ Strains

Gagan A. Pandya ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Gagan A. Pandya, M. Catherine McEllistrem

Affiliation Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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M. Catherine McEllistrem ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Gagan A. Pandya, M. Catherine McEllistrem

Affiliation Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Pratap Venepally,

Affiliation Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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Michael H. Holmes,

Current address: Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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Behnam Jarrahi,

Affiliation Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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Ravi Sanka,

Affiliation Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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Jia Liu,

Affiliation Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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Svetlana A. Karamycheva,

Affiliation Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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Yun Bai,

Current address: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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Robert D. Fleischmann,

Affiliation Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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Scott N. Peterson

* E-mail: scottp@jcvi.org

Affiliation Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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Monitoring the Long-Term Molecular Epidemiology of the Pneumococcus and Detection of Potential ‘Vaccine Escape’ Strains

Gagan A. Pandya,
M. Catherine McEllistrem,
Pratap Venepally,
Michael H. Holmes,
Behnam Jarrahi,
Ravi Sanka,
Jia Liu,
Svetlana A. Karamycheva,
Yun Bai,
Robert D. Fleischmann

Published: January 10, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015950

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