Combined real-time PCR and pyrosequencing strategy for objective, sensitive, specific, and high-throughput identification of reduced susceptibility to penicillins in Neisseria meningitidis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 753-756

  Thulin, Sara ^a   Olcén, Per ^a   Fredlund, Hans ^a   Unemo, Magnus ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFUROXIME; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SANGER SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PENICILLINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 38649099095     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00914-07     Document Type: Article

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