Rapid identification of penicillin and macrolide resistance genes and simultaneous quantification of Streptococcus pneumoniae in purulent sputum samples by use of a novel real-time multiplex PCR assay

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2384-2388

  Fukushima, Kazuko Y ^a   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a   Hirakata, Yoichi ^a   Sugahara, Kazuyuki ^a   Morinaga, Yoshitomo ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a   Kamihira, Shimeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERMB GENE; GEL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; LYTA GENE; MEFA GENE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PBP1A GENE; PBP2B GENE; PBP2X GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COUNT; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUPPURATION;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLINS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPPURATION;

EID: 49049119968     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00051-08     Document Type: Article

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