Rarely occurring 19A-like cps locus from a serotype 19F pneumococcal isolate indicates continued need of serology-based quality control for PCR-based serotype determinations

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2353-2354

  Pimenta, Fabiana C ^a   Gertz Jr , Robert E ^a   Roundtree, Alexis ^a   Yu, Jigui ^b   Nahm, Moon H ^b   McDonald, Ryan R ^c   Carvalho, Maria Da Gloria ^a   Beall, Bernard W ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c Provincial Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 2 EPIMERASE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; LETTER; MNAA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 67650087606     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00704-09     Document Type: Letter

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