The development of a 16S rRNA gene based PCR for the identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae and comparison with four other species specific PCR assays

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  El Aila, Nabil A ^a   Emler, Stefan ^b   Kaijalainen, Tarja ^c   De Baere, Thierry ^a,d   Saerens, Bart ^a   Alkan, Elife ^a   Deschaght, Pieter ^a   Verhelst, Rita ^a   Vaneechoutte, Mario ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SmartGene   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PARASANGUINIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PSEUDOPNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 77953673124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-104     Document Type: Article

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