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Misidentification of alpha-hemolytic streptococci by routine tests in clinical practice.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2011
Ikryannikova L N, Lapin K N, Malakhova M V, Filimonova A V, Ilina E N, Dubovickaya V A, Sidorenko S V, Govorun V M
Abstract excerpt
Accurate species-level identification of viridans group streptococci (VGS) is very important for understanding of their pathogenicity and virulence. However, an extremely high level of the similarity between VGS, especially Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus oralis and Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae, often results in misidentification of these organisms, so there is an urgent need of...
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