Use of 2 pneumococcal common protein real-time polymerase chain reaction assays in healthy children colonized with Streptococcus pneumoniae

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 452-454

  Rouphael, Nadine ^a,b   Steyn, Sanet ^c   Bangert, Mathieu ^a,d   Sampson, Jackie S ^a   Adrian, Peter ^e   Madhi, Shabir A ^e   Klugman, Keith P ^b,e   Ades, Edwin W ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

LytA and psaA; PCR assay; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

AUTOLYSIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PNEUMOCOCCAL SURFACE ADHESION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYTA GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSAA GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 79960374179     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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