Genotypic identification of presumptive Streptococcus pneumoniae by PCR using four genes highly specific for S. pneumoniae

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 709-714

  Suzuki, Nao ^a   Yuyama, Mayumi ^b   Maeda, Sinsaku ^b   Ogawa, Haruhiko ^c   Mashiko, Kazuyuki ^b   Kiyoura, Yusuke ^a  

^a OHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Jusendo General Hospital   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLHYDROCUPREINE; PRIMER DNA;

ADULT; AMPLICON; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LYTA GENE; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PLY GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; SPN9802 GENE; SPN9828 GENE; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUININE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOLYSINS;

EID: 33744955035     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46296-0     Document Type: Article

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