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Penicillin resistance is mainly confined to a limited number of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes. Given linkage between the capsular biosynthesis locus and two penicillin binding proteins, we tested whether capsule homology increases transformation rates of penicillin resistance. Transformation rates in homologous donor-recipient pairs were no higher than expected, falsifying this hypothesis.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Room 903, Building 1, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ktrzcins@hsph.harvard.edu
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