Sequetyping: Serotyping Streptococcus pneumoniae by a single PCR sequencing strategy

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2419-2427

  Leung, Marcus H ^a   Bryson, Kevin ^b   Freystatter, Kathrin ^a   Pichon, Bruno ^c   Edwards, Giles ^d   Charalambous, Bambos M ^a   Gillespie, Stephen H ^a,e  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d STOBHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPSB GENE; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA FAECALIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS CRISTATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PARASANGUINIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PSEUDOPNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84862727212     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.06384-11     Document Type: Article

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