Streptococcus pneumoniae

Epidemiology
Denmark¹⁴-230 Clone as an Increasing Cause of Pneumococcal Infection in Portugal within a Background of Diverse Serotype 19A Lineages
Sandra I. Aguiar, Francisco R. Pinto, Sónia Nunes, Isa Serrano, José Melo-Cristino, Raquel Sá-Leão, Mário Ramirez, Hermínia de Lencastre
Epidemiology
An Unusual Pneumococcal Sequence Type Is the Predominant Cause of Serotype 3 Invasive Disease in South Africa
Kedibone M. Mothibeli, Mignon du Plessis, Anne von Gottberg, Linda de Gouveia, Peter Adrian, Shabir A. Madhi, Keith P. Klugman
and for the Group for Enteric, Respiratory and Meningeal Disease Surveillance in South Africa (GERMS-SA)
Bacteriology
Temporal Analysis of Invasive Pneumococcal Clones from Scotland Illustrates Fluctuations in Diversity of Serotype and Genotype in the Absence of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
J. M. Jefferies, A. J. Smith, G. F. S. Edwards, J. McMenamin, T. J. Mitchell, S. C. Clarke
Bacteriology
Comparison of BD Phoenix to Vitek 2, MicroScan MICroSTREP, and Etest for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Scott A. Mittman, Richard C. Huard, Phyllis Della-Latta, Susan Whittier
Bacteriology
Streptococcus pneumoniae DNA Load in Blood as a Marker of Infection in Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Remco P. H. Peters, Richard F. de Boer, Tim Schuurman, Sonja Gierveld, Mirjam Kooistra-Smid, Michiel A. van Agtmael, Christina M. J. E. Vandenbroucke-Grauls, Maike C. J. Persoons, Paul H. M. Savelkoul
Bacteriology
Simple, Accurate, Serotype-Specific PCR Assay To Differentiate Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotypes 6A, 6B, and 6C
Ping Jin, Meng Xiao, Fanrong Kong, Shahin Oftadeh, Fei Zhou, Chunyi Liu, Gwendolyn L. Gilbert
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Rarely Occurring 19A-Like cps Locus from a Serotype 19F Pneumococcal Isolate Indicates Continued Need of Serology-Based Quality Control for PCR-Based Serotype Determinations
Fabiana C. Pimenta, Robert E. Gertz, Alexis Roundtree, Jigui Yu, Moon H. Nahm, Ryan R. McDonald, Maria da Gloria Carvalho, Bernard W. Beall
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
“Dodgy 6As”: Differentiating Pneumococcal Serotype 6C from 6A by Use of the Quellung Reaction
Kim M. Hare, Heidi Smith-Vaughan, Michael Binks, In Ho Park, Moon H. Nahm, Amanda J. Leach
Bacteriology
Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae Strain Cocolonization in the Nasopharynx
Silvio D. Brugger, Lucy J. Hathaway, Kathrin Mühlemann
Bacteriology
Utility of the Pneumoslide Test in Identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Blood Cultures and Its Relation to Capsular Serotype
Wilson W. Chan, Marguerite Lovgren, Gregory J. Tyrrell

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