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PCR fingerprinting analysis for differentiation of Streptococcus pneumoniae reinfection versus relapse
S Hunt Gerardo1, D M Citron, E J Goldstein
1R. M. Alden Research Laboratory, Santa Monica/UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA. shuntger@dent.ucla.edu
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|April 15, 2000
Abstract:
Polymerase chain reaction fingerprint profiles of isolates obtained during an episode of pneumococcal pneumonia with bacteremia differed significantly from profiles of isolates obtained from the same patient during a subsequent episode of pneumococcal meningitis with bacteremia. Polymerase chain reaction fingerprinting provides a means of differentiating new infection from relapse, and may be a simple molecular tool for comparison of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates.