Usefulness of Pneumotest-latex for direct serotyping of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in clinical samples.
This study evaluated the usefulness of the Pneumotest-Latex assay for serotyping Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates directly in clinical samples. With an agreement of 88.1% with a PCR-based reference method, this test can be a useful tool for this study purpose, especially in clinical laboratories that do not have access to nucleic acid amplification technologies.
National Reference Centre for Bacterial Meningitis, Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland akuch@cls.edu.pl.
Alicja
A
Kuch
National Reference Centre for Bacterial Meningitis, Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Agnieszka
A
Gołȩbiewska
National Reference Centre for Bacterial Meningitis, Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Izabela
I
Waśko
National Reference Centre for Bacterial Meningitis, Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Patrycja
P
Ronkiewicz
National Reference Centre for Bacterial Meningitis, Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Marlena
M
Markowska
National Reference Centre for Bacterial Meningitis, Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Waleria
W
Hryniewicz
National Reference Centre for Bacterial Meningitis, Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Anna
A
Skoczyńska
D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007841:Latex Fixation Tests / Q000379:methods; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D012703:Serotyping / Q000379:methods; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification*