Streptococcus pneumoniae in saliva of Dutch primary school children.

Streptococcus pneumoniae in saliva of Dutch primary school children.

While nasopharyngeal sampling is the gold standard for the detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage, historically seen, saliva sampling also seems highly sensitive for pneumococcal detection. We investigated S. pneumoniae carriage in saliva from fifty schoolchildren by conventional and molecul...

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Main Authors: Anne L Wyllie, Mei Ling J N Chu, Mariëlle H B Schellens, Jody van Engelsdorp Gastelaars, Marc D Jansen, Arie van der Ende, Debby Bogaert, Elisabeth A M Sanders, Krzysztof Trzciński
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4094488?pdf=render

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