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Capsular Serotyping of Streptococcus pneumoniae Using the Quellung Reaction
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Comparison of methods for detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 6C
Jin Yang Baek1, Kwan Soo Ko, So Hyun Kim
1Asia Pacific Research for Infectious Diseases (APFID), Seoul 135-710, Korea.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|March 15, 2011
Abstract:
Polymerase chain reaction-based methods and Quellung method were compared for serotyping of Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 6 for 230 isolates from Asian countries. Prevalence of serotype 6C differed according to the method used, with inconsistencies in 12 pneumococcal isolates (5.2%). Thus, evaluation of the prevalence of serotype 6C may differ according to the methods used.
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