Article
Pgi genotyping is a surrogate for serotyping of encapsulated Haemophilus influenzae.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2003
Anyanwu Juliana N, Rodriguez Carina A, Fleming Katherine E, Adderson Elisabeth E
Abstract excerpt
Study of the epidemiology of invasive infections caused by encapsulated Haemophilus influenzae has been complicated by the poor sensitivity and specificity of the serologic assays used to identify specific capsular polysaccharides. The population structure of these bacteria is highly clonal, however, and serotype is highly correlated with other genetic characteristics. We sought to determine if alleles of the...
Topics
- Alleles
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase
- Haemophilus Infections
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polysaccharides, Bacterial
