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SUBMITTER: Olwagen CP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5498530 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Olwagen Courtney P CP Olwagen Courtney P CP Adrian Peter V PV Madhi Shabir A SA
Scientific reports 20170705 1
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) to detect multiple pneumococcal serotypes/group colonization in archived nasopharyngeal swabs of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine naive children who had previously been investigated by traditional culture meth ...[more]