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Latex assay for serotyping of group B Streptococcus isolates
H-C Slotved1, J Elliott, T Thompson
1Production Unit, Department of Respiratory Infections, Meningitis and STIs, Division of Microbiology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark. hcs@ssi.dk
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|September 6, 2003
Abstract:
We developed a group B streptococcus (GBS) latex serotyping kit that reduces the numbers of GBS nontypeable isolates by nearly 50%. A total of 232 isolates were tested, and 203 isolates were serotyped by the GBS latex test, while the capillary precipitation test serotyped 184 isolates.