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The aim of this work was to investigate serotypes, antibiotic susceptibilities, genotypes and biofilm production of CF pneumococcal isolates. Overall, 44<jats:italic>S. pneumoniae<\/jats:italic>strains collected from 32 paediatric CF patients from January 2010 to May 2012 in a large Italian CF Centre were tested for antimicrobial susceptibility testing by Etest, serotyped by the Quellung reaction and genotyped by a combination of different molecular typing methods, including<jats:italic>pbp<\/jats:italic>gene restriction profiling,<jats:italic>pspA<\/jats:italic>restriction profiling and sequencing, PFGE and multilocus sequence typing. Biofilm production by pneumococcal strains was also assessed. Penicillin non-susceptibility was 16\u200a%. High resistance rates (&gt;56\u200a%) were observed for erythromycin, clindamycin and tetracycline. The most frequent serotype recovered was serotype 3 (31.8\u200a%). The coverage of PCV7 and PCV13 was 6.8 and 47.7\u200a%, respectively. 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