The Relevance of a Novel Quantitative Assay to Detect up to 40 Major Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotypes Directly in Clinical Nasopharyngeal and Blood Specimens.

The Relevance of a Novel Quantitative Assay to Detect up to 40 Major Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotypes Directly in Clinical Nasopharyngeal and Blood Specimens.

For epidemiological and surveillance purposes, it is relevant to monitor the distribution and dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes. Conventional serotyping methods do not provide rapid or quantitative information on serotype loads. Quantitative serotyping may enable prediction of the invas...

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Main Authors: Melina Messaoudi, Milen Milenkov, Werner C Albrich, Mark P G van der Linden, Thomas Bénet, Monidarin Chou, Mariam Sylla, Patricia Barreto Costa, Nathalie Richard, Keith P Klugman, Hubert P Endtz, Gláucia Paranhos-Baccalà, Jean-Noël Telles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4795784?pdf=render

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