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Current methods for capsular typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Journal of microbiological methods - 1 Jun 2015
Jauneikaite Elita, Tocheva Anna S, Jefferies Johanna M C, Gladstone Rebecca A, Faust Saul N, Christodoulides Myron, Hibberd Martin L, Clarke Stuart C
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major respiratory tract pathogen causing pneumococcal disease mainly in children aged less than five years and in the elderly. Ninety-eight different capsular types (serotypes) of pneumococci have been reported, but pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) include polysaccharide antigens against only 7, 10 or 13 serotypes. It is therefore important to track the emergence of serotypes...
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