title: Rapid and reliable identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates by pneumolysin-mediated agglutination.
abstract: A pneumolysin-based agglutination test which allows an easy, rapid, cost-effective, and accurate (100% specific and 95% sensitive) discrimination between pneumococci and other related human and animal pathogenic bacterial strains has been assayed.
mesh_terms: D000372:Agglutination Tests; D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013301:Streptolysins