Use of pyrosequencing to differentiate Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 6A and 6B

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 4820-4822

  Pai, Rekha ^a   Limor, Josef ^b   Beall, Bernard ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CODON; CROSS REACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WCIP GENE;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 24744435572     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.9.4820-4822.2005     Document Type: Article

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