7603

Organism:Streptococcus pneumoniae (Klein 1884) Chester 1901
Designations: ATCC BAA-1663
History:ATCC << L McGee
Biosafety level:2
Growth Conditions: Medium: 56. TRYPTICASE SOY AGAR WITH SHEEP BLOOD 5% CO2
Temperature: 37.0
Comments: Serotype 15B
Pneumococcal Molecular Epidemiology Network reference strain for Netherlands15B-37
Representative strain of the Pneumococcal Molecular Epidemiology Network (PMEN)
References: Enright MC, Spratt BG. A multilocus sequence typing scheme for Streptococcus pneumoniae: identification of clones associated with serious invasive disease. Microbiology. 144( Pt 11): 3049-3060, 1998.
McGee L, et al. Nomenclature of major antimicrobial-resistant clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae defined by the pneumococcal molecular epidemiology network. J Clin Microbiol. 39: 2565-2571, 2001.