The Relevance of a Novel Quantitative Assay to Detect up to 40 Major Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotypes Directly in Clinical Nasopharyngeal and Blood Specimens

• Melina Messaoudi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Melina Messaoudi, Milen Milenkov

  Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Laboratory, Fondation Mérieux - Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), Lyon, France

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• Milen Milenkov ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Melina Messaoudi, Milen Milenkov

  Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Laboratory, Fondation Mérieux - Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), Lyon, France

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• Werner C. Albrich,

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Medical Research Council Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Mark P. G. van der Linden,

  Affiliation National Reference Center for Streptococci, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Thomas Bénet,

  Affiliation Service d'Hygiène, Epidémiologie et Prévention, Hôpital Edouard Herriot - Hospices Civils de Lyon, France

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• Monidarin Chou,

  Affiliation Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Health Sciences, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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• Mariam Sylla,

  Affiliation CHU Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali

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• Patricia Barreto Costa,

  Affiliation Laboratório de vírus respiratórios e do sarampo, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Nathalie Richard,

  Affiliation Service de Réanimation Pédiatrique Médico-Chirurgicale, HFME, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France

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• Keith P. Klugman,

  Current address: Pneumonia Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  Affiliations Medical Research Council Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Hubert Department of Global Health and Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Hubert P. Endtz,

  Affiliations Emerging Pathogens Laboratory, Fondation Mérieux - Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), Lyon, France, Departement of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Gláucia Paranhos-Baccalà ,

  * E-mail: glaucia.baccala@fondation-merieux.org

  Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Laboratory, Fondation Mérieux - Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), Lyon, France

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• Jean-Noël Telles

  Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Laboratory, Fondation Mérieux - Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), Lyon, France

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