Rapid and reliable identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates by pneumolysin-mediated agglutination

M D Cima-Cabal; F Vázquez; J R de los Toyos; F J Méndez

doi:10.1128/JCM.37.6.1964-1966.1999

Rapid and reliable identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates by pneumolysin-mediated agglutination

J Clin Microbiol. 1999 Jun;37(6):1964-6. doi: 10.1128/JCM.37.6.1964-1966.1999.

Authors

M D Cima-Cabal¹, F Vázquez, J R de los Toyos, F J Méndez

Affiliation

¹ Area de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain.

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Agglutination Tests
Animals
Bacterial Proteins
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Pneumococcal Infections / diagnosis*
Recombinant Proteins
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Streptococcus pneumoniae / classification
Streptococcus pneumoniae / isolation & purification*
Streptolysins

Substances

Bacterial Proteins
Recombinant Proteins
Streptolysins
plY protein, Streptococcus pneumoniae