From quellung to multiplex PCR, and back when needed, in pneumococcal serotyping

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2727-2731

  Siira, Lotta ^a   Kaijalainen, Tarja ^a   Lambertsen, Lotte ^b   Nahm, Moon H ^c   Toropainen, Maija ^a   Virolainena, Anni ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FINLAND; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUELLUNG TESTING; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

FINLAND; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84864411538     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00689-12     Document Type: Article

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