Journal
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 54, Issue 5, Pages 453-455Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.45836-0
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Detection of the conserved capsule gene bexA is used to distinguish capsulate from non-capsulate Haemophilus influenzae. While developing a real-time PCR assay to detect bexA, it was found that bexA probes produced a detectable signal for H. influenzae types a to d, but failed to do so for H. influenzae types e and f. Sequencing revealed differences compared with H. influenzae types a to d within probe binding sites. To prevent misclassification of strains as non-capsulate, assays must detect all capsular types.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available