Diagnosis of bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia by amplification of pneumolysin gene fragment in serum
Salo P;Ortqvist A;Leinonen M;;
The Journal of infectious diseases1995Vol. 171pp. -
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Abstract
A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay based on the amplification of pneumolysin gene fragments in patient sera was developed for the etiologic diagnosis of acute pneumococcal pneumonia. Two pairs of oligonucleotide primers were designed to amplify a 348-bp and a 208-bp fragment of the pneumolysin …