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Two cases of serotypeable and non-serotypeable variants of Streptococcus pneumoniae detected simultaneously during invasive disease

BACKGROUND: More than 94 serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae have been described to date, however the majority of disease is caused by approximately 20 serotypes. Some pneumococci do not react with commercially available antisera used for serotyping and are thus regarded as non-serotypeable (NT)....

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Autores principales: Ndlangisa, Kedibone M., du Plessis, Mignon, Allam, Mushal, Wolter, Nicole, Mohale, Thabo, de Gouveia, Linda, Birkhead, Monica, Klugman, Keith P., von Gottberg, Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4921036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27342074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-016-0745-0