Nonculture prediction of Neisseria meningitidis susceptibility to penicillin

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作者
Antignac, A [1 ]
Alonso, JM [1 ]
Tara, MK [1 ]
机构
[1] Inst Pasteur, Ctr Natl Reference Meningocoques, Unite Neisseria, F-75724 Paris 15, France
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10.1128/AAC.45.12.3625-3628.2001
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
We developed a nonculture method to predict the susceptibility of Neisseria meningitidis to penicillin G. The penA gene was amplified and submitted to restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. This approach was first validated with a collection of 75 meningococcal strains of known phenotypes. It was next successfully applied to 29 clinical samples.
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