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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Autori principali: 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.
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: PeerJ Inc. 2013
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Biodiversity
Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3698467/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23825797
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.97
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