Comparison of traditional culture and molecular qPCR for detection of simultaneous carriage of multiple pneumococcal serotypes in African children

Abstract S. pneumoniae is a common colonizer of the human nasopharynx in high income and low-middle income countries. Due to limitations of standard culture methods, the prevalence of concurrent colonization with multiple serotypes is unclear. We evaluated the use of multiplex quantitative PCR (qPCR...

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Auteurs principaux: Courtney P. Olwagen, Peter V. Adrian, Shabir A. Madhi
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Langue:EN
Publié: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/979a6b5ffa15493b8f967b2ceaaddc11
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