Evaluation of Genotypic Versus Phenotypic Diagnostic Methods for Detection of streptococcus pneumoniae among Children with Lower Respiratory Tract Infection

Abstract

This study was carried out in the Department of Microbiology in collaboration with Dept of Pediatrics Mahatma Gandhi Medical College Jaipur Rajasthan This study provides insight into the performance characteristics of various genotypic and phenotypic methods for identifying S pneumoniae among children The sensitivity and specificity of different phenotypic biochemical and genotypic methods have been used in combination with the WHO CDC algorithm to identify S pneumoniae isolates in the laboratory While using multi pathogen testing for bacterial LRTI phenotypic biochemical and genotypic approaches have been compared to identify S pneumonia newline