PCR-based capsular serotype determination of Haemophilus influenzae strains recovered from Japanese paediatric patients with invasive infection

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 895-898

  Ishiwada, N ^a,b   Cao, L D ^a   Kohno, Y ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Haemophilus influenza; Meningitis; PCR; Serotyping

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGLOTTITIS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEROTYPE;

HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 6444240667     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2004.00966.x     Document Type: Article

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