Whole Genome Sequencing of 39 Invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae Sequence Type 199 Isolates Revealed Switches from Serotype 19A to 15B

• Oliwia Makarewicz ,

  * E-mail: oliwia.makarwicz@med.uni-jena.de

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4404-1862

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• Marie Lucas,

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Christian Brandt,

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Leonie Herrmann,

  Affiliation Center for Biotechology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Andreas Albersmeier,

  Affiliation Center for Biotechology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Christian Rückert,

  Current Address: Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Center for Biotechology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-4435

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• Jochen Blom,

  Affiliation Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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• Alexander Goesmann,

  Affiliation Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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• Mark van der Linden,

  Affiliation German National Reference Center of Streptococci, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6574-4313

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• Jörn Kalinowski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jörn Kalinowski, Mathias W. Pletz

  ¶‡ These authors are senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Center for Biotechology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Mathias W. Pletz

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jörn Kalinowski, Mathias W. Pletz

  ¶‡ These authors are senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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