Usefulness of Pneumotest-Latex for direct serotyping of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in clinical samples

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2647-2649

  Kuch, Alicja ^a   Gołȩbiewska, Agnieszka ^a   Waśko, Izabela ^a   Ronkiewicz, Patrycja ^a   Markowska, Marlena ^a   Hryniewicz, Waleria ^a   Skoczyńska, Anna ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PNEUMOTEST LATEX ASSAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84903752797     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00451-14     Document Type: Article

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