Serotyping of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from nasopharyngeal samples: Use of an algorithm combining microbiologic, serologic, and sequential multiplex PCR techniques

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3209-3214

  Miernyk, Karen ^a,b   DeByle, Carolynn ^b   Harker Jones, Marcella ^b   Hummel, Kimberlee Boyd ^b   Hennessy, Thomas ^b   Wenger, Jay ^b   Rudolph, Karen ^b  

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

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INFANT; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NASOPHARYNX; NEUFELD TEST; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ALGORITHMS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; INFANT; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 80052239704     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00610-11     Document Type: Article

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