American Society for Microbiology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1(57), 2019
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.01354-18
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Streptococcus pneumoniae expressing serotype 3 has a high virulence and a high case fatality ratio. Most studies of serotype 3 pneumococci have focused on a single lineage, the widespread sequence type 180 (ST180).