Non-pneumococcal mitis-group streptococci confound detection of pneumococcal capsular serotype-specific loci in upper respiratory tract

We performed culture-based and PCR-based tests for pneumococcal identification and serotyping from carriage specimens collected in rural and urban Kenya. Nasopharyngeal specimens from 237 healthy children <5 years old (C-NPs) and combined nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal specimens from 158 adults (A-...

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Autores principales: Carvalho, Maria da Gloria, Pimenta, Fabiana C., Moura, Iaci, Roundtree, Alexis, Gertz, Robert E., Li, Zhongya, Jagero, Geofrey, Bigogo, Godfrey, Junghae, Muthoni, Conklin, Laura, Feikin, Daniel R., Breiman, Robert F., Whitney, Cynthia G., Beall, Bernard W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2013
Materias:
Biodiversity
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3698467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23825797
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.97

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3698467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23825797
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.97

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