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Multiplex PCR Assay for Typing of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome Mec Types I to V in Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Published on: September 5, 2013
Multiplex PCR assay for rapid and accurate capsular typing of group B streptococci
Claire Poyart1, Asmaa Tazi, Hélène Réglier-Poupet
1Service de Bactériologie Groupe Hospitalier Cochin-Saint Vincent de Paul, Assitance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 27 rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, 75014 Paris, France. claire.poyart@cch.aphp.fr
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|March 23, 2007
Abstract:
We developed a simple, specific, and sensitive two-multiplex-PCR assay that enabled the detection of all known group B streptococcal (GBS) capsular polysaccharides. This test is well adapted for GBS capsular polysaccharide typing in large-scale epidemiological studies.
