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While\n                    <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                    -lactams remain the first-line therapy for pneumococcal infections in Australia, resistance to macrolides, tetracyclines and other antibiotics, driven by resistance genes carried on mobile genetic elements (MGEs), is increasingly reported. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of 573\u2009\n                    <jats:italic>S<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                    <jats:italic>pneumoniae<\/jats:italic>\n                    genomes from South Australia, Queensland and Victoria to investigate the distribution of MGEs and their association with acquired AMR genes. Resistance genes and MGEs were identified using AMRFinderPlus and MobileElementFinder. Serotypes, sequence types and global pneumococcal sequence clusters (GPSCs) were assigned using SeroBA, MLST and the GPS pipeline. Out of the 573 genomes, 547 passed quality checks. 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Macrolide and tetracycline resistance genes co-occurred in 192\/239 (80.7%) MGE-positive genomes. The most common MGE-positive serotypes were 33F\/ST717\/GPSC3 (15.6%,\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    =30), serotype 4\/ST2759\/GPSC162 (15.1%,\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    =29), serotype 15A\/ST63\/GPSC9 (7.3%,\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    =14), serotype 23A\/ST338\/GPSC5 (5.7%,\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    =11), serotype 15A\/ST8625\/GPSC9 (3.6%,\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    =7) and serotype 19A\/ST3111\/GPSC932 (3.6%,\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    =7). Our results reflect global trends of MGE-associated resistance in expanding non-vaccine serotypes (such as 15A and 23A) and multidrug-resistant clones. 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