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Diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia by psaA PCR analysis of lung aspirates from adult patients in Kenya
Journal of clinical microbiology, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. –, 2003
Abstract
psaA is the gene encoding pneumococcal surface adhesin A (PsaA), a 37-kDa protein expressed on the surface of Streptococcus pneumoniae. PCR primers for psaA have been shown to amplify the target DNA sequence in all 90 serotypes of S. pneumoniae and in none of 67 heterologous pathogens and colonizing …
Keywords
- National Center for Biotechnology Information
- NCBI
- NLM
- MEDLINE
- Mice
- Inbred C57BL
- animals
- humans
- pubmed abstract
- nih
- national institutes of health
- national library of medicine
- research support
- non-u.s. gov't
- adult
- adolescent
- aged
- middle aged
- Bacterial
- DNA
- sensitivity and specificity
- Evaluation Study
- Bacterial / analysis
- Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods*
- pneumonia
- pneumococcal / diagnosis*
- pneumococcal / microbiology
- streptococcus pneumoniae / genetics
- j anthony g scott
- kenya
- kevin marsh
- lung / microbiology*
- bacterial proteins*
- pmid:12791880
- pmc156539
- doi:10.1128/jcm.41.6.2554-2559.2003
- eric l marston
- adhesins
- carrier proteins / genetics*
- bacterial / isolation & purification
- drainage
- lipoproteins / genetics*
- membrane transport proteins*
How to cite
Scott JA; Marston EL; Hall AJ; Marsh K. (2003). Diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia by psaA PCR analysis of lung aspirates from adult patients in Kenya. Journal of clinical microbiology, 41(6), –. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12791880
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