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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2014

Direct detection and prediction of all pneumococcal serogroups by target enrichment-based next-generation sequencing.

Margaret Ip, Veranja Liyanapathirana, Irene Ang, Kitty S C Fung, T K Ng, Haokui Zhou, Dominic N C Tsang

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Margaret IpDepartment of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR margaretip@cuhk.edu.hk.
Veranja LiyanapathiranaDepartment of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR.
Irene AngDepartment of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR.
Kitty S C FungDepartment of Pathology, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong SAR.
T K NgDepartment of Pathology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong SAR.
Haokui ZhouDepartment of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR.
Dominic N C TsangDepartment of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong SAR.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the availability of standard methods for pneumococcal serotyping, there is room for improvement in the available methods, in terms of throughput, multiplexing capacity, and the number of serotypes identified. We describe a target enrichment-based next-generation sequencing method applied to nasopharyngeal samples for direct detection and serogroup prediction of all known serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae, 32 to the serotype level and the rest to the closely related serogroup level. The method was applied to detect and to predict the serogroups of pneumococci directly in clinical samples and from sweeps of primary culture DNA, with increased detection rates versus culture-based identification and agreement with the serotypes/serogroups determined by conventional serotyping methods. We propose this method, in conjunction with traditional serotyping methods, as an alternative to rapid detection and serotyping of pneumococci.

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Bacteriological TechniquesChildHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansNasopharynxPneumococcal InfectionsSensitivity and SpecificitySerogroupStreptococcus pneumoniaeTime Factors

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PMID25274995
PMCPMC4313294

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