Population-Based Analysis of Invasive Nontypeable Pneumococci Reveals That Most Have Defective Capsule Synthesis Genes

• In Ho Park ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: In Ho Park, K. Aaron Geno

  Current address: Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

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

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• K. Aaron Geno ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: In Ho Park, K. Aaron Geno

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

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• Logan K. Sherwood,

  Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Moon H. Nahm,

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Bernard Beall

  * E-mail: bbeall@cdc.gov

  Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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