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Abstract

The high prevalence of penicillin resistance among isolates from Uruguay has been associated with the emergence of a penicillin-resistant clone of serotype 14. Isolates of this clone were identical by multilocus sequence typing to members of the Spanish penicillin-resistant serotype 9V clone and possessed indistinguishable forms of the penicillin-binding protein 2b and 2x genes. Their genes were also identical, except at the 3′ end. The serotype 14 isolates were shown to be a variant of the Spanish serotype 9V clone which arose by a 22·2 kb recombinational replacement that introduced the capsular biosynthetic locus, and part of the neighbouring gene, from a serotype 14 isolate. One end of the recombinational replacement was within the first gene of the capsular polysaccharide operon, , as the sequence of the upstream gene, through most of , was identical in the penicillin-resistant serotype 9V and 14 isolates, but the sequences differed in the rest of and in The other recombinational junction was at the end of the divergently transcribed gene, which is approximately 11·6 kb downstream of the capsular biosynthetic locus. Isolates of this serotype variant were also detected in Spain and Denmark. Penicillin-resistant serotype 14 isolates from Poland were also closely related to the penicillin-resistant serotype 9V clone, but have emerged independently, as one end of the recombinational replacement was upstream of and the other was within , but at a different position from that in the serotype 14 variants from Uruguay, Spain and Denmark. 14 variants of the Spanish serotype 9V clone have therefore arisen on more than one occasion by large recombinational replacements that extend from the start of the region into the gene.

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1999-08-01
2024-03-29
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