Identification of group A streptococcal emm types commonly associated with invasive infections and antimicrobial resistance by the use of multiplex PCR and high-resolution melting analysis

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2817-2826

  Bidet, P ^a,b   Liguori, S ^a,b   Plainvert, C ^a,c   Bonacorsi, S ^a,b   Courroux, C ^a,b   D'Humieres C ^a,b   Poyart, C ^a,c   Efstratiou, A ^d   Bingen, E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^c Institut Cochin   (France)

^d WHO Collaborating Centre for Diphtheria and Streptococcal Infections   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EMM GENE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES INVASION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84869138245     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: 14354373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-012-1635-5     Document Type: Article

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