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Easy diagnosis of invasive pneumococcal disease
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Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) causes many cases of severe disease and death among children <5 years of age, mostly in developing countries. Before conjugate vaccines can be introduced in developing countries, information about disease epidemiology is urgently needed. The lack of laboratories equipped to perform pneumococcal serotyping leads to the need to send isolates to reference laboratories. Good sample preservation is necessary to prevent samples from arriving at the laboratory in poor condition. We evaluated the usefulness of multiplex real-time PCR from strains and blood samples kept at room temperature on dried blood spot (DBS) filter paper for detecting and serotyping Streptococcus pneumoniae. DBS screening is a reliable method that requires only a small amount of blood; it is used for the diagnosis of several human diseases
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SELVA JOVÉ, Laura, KRAUEL, Xavier, PALLARÉS GINER, Roman, MUÑOZ-ALMAGRO, Carmen. Easy diagnosis of invasive pneumococcal disease. _Emerging Infectious Diseases_. 2011. Vol. 17, núm. 6, pàgs. 1125-1127. [consulta: 20 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 1080-6040. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/124219]