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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 1, Pages 184-191Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01011-09
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- Medical Research Council of South Africa
- National Institute for Communicable Disease (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS)
- University of Witwatersrand
- United States Agency for International Development's Antimicrobial Resistance Initiative
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia [U60/CCU022088]
- HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) [U62/PSO022901]
- Wellcome Trust
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We reviewed pneumococcal serotype 3 cases reported from 2000 through 2005 to a laboratory-based surveillance system for invasive pneumococcal disease in South Africa. The prevalence of serotype 3 invasive isolates was compared to their prevalence in carriage isolates to determine the odds of invasiveness due to serotype 3 among South African children. Three groups of serotype 3 strains were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) or Box element PCR (BOX-PCR), randomly selected invasive isolates from one province, isolates from a carriage study involving children in the same province, and antimicrobial-resistant invasive isolates collected nationally. Examples of the PFGE types identified were further characterized by multilocus sequence typing. In total, 15,980 viable isolates causing invasive disease were submitted, of which 661 (4%) were serotype 3, mostly from adults (85% [489/575]). Fewer serotype 3 isolates were nonsusceptible to antimicrobial agents tested (40/661 [6%]) than non-serotype 3 isolates (8,480/15,319 [55%]) (P < 0.001). Compared to non-serotype 3 cases, there was no association with HIV coinfection (2,212/2,569 [86%] versus 72/78 [92%]; P = 0.1) or increased case fatality ratio (1,190/4,211 [28%] versus 54/154 [35%]; P = 0.7). Serotype 3 in children had a low but statistically insignificant invasive disease potential (odds ratio [OR] of 0.15; 95% confidence interval [CI] of 0.01 to 1.06). Strains were grouped into 3 PFGE clusters, with the largest, cluster A, representing 54% (84/155), including 14 isolates confirmed as sequence type 458 (ST458). It was confirmed that 3 isolates from cluster B, which represented only 12% (18/155) of the isolates, were the serotype 3 global strain, ST180. We have therefore identified ST458 as predominating in South Africa, but with an invasive potential similar to that of the predominant global clone ST180.
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