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October 6, 2014The Journal of Infectious Diseases50 citationsOpen Access

Evidence for Clonal Expansion After Antibiotic Selection Pressure: Pneumococcal Multilocus Sequence Types Before and After Mass Azithromycin Treatments

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JKJeremy D. KeenanKKKeith P. KlugmanLMLesley McGee

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Resistant clones present before mass azithromycin treatments increased in frequency after treatment, consistent with the theory that antibiotic selection pressure results in clonal expansion of existing resistant strains.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69daa2183bc1ef7225684399https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiu552
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