Usefulness of Pneumotest-Latex for direct serotyping of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in clinical samples

Abstract

This study evaluated the usefulness of the Pneumotest-Latex assay for serotyping Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates directly in clinical samples. With an agreement of 88.1% with a PCR-based reference method, this test can be a useful tool for this study purpose, especially in clinical laboratories that do not have access to nucleic acid amplification technologies. Copyright © 2014, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.