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SUBMITTER: Zbinden A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3043496 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zbinden A A Köhler N N Bloemberg G V GV
Journal of clinical microbiology 20101208 2
Proper identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae by conventional methods remains problematic. The discriminatory power of the 16S rRNA gene, which can be considered the "gold standard" for molecular identification, is too low to differentiate S. pneumoniae from closely related species such as Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae, Streptococcus mitis, and Streptococcus oralis in the routine clinical laboratory. A 313-bp part of recA was selected on the basis of variability within the S. mitis group, s ...[more]