… Streptococcus pneumoniae and closely related species within the Streptococcus mitis group
(… However, the accurate identification at the species level of this group of microorganisms is …

… Clinical laboratories must be able to accurately differentiate S. pneumoniae from other VGS
commonly found in clinical samples to facilitate appropriate antimicrobial therapy. However, …

… for differentiation of species, at amino acid-level resolution. In this study, the high resolution
and accuracy of MS… As it is possible to find the three species of the Streptococcus Mitis Group …

… evaluated for differentiation between S. pneumoniae and S. mitis species group streptococci.
… Nevertheless, for clinical laboratories, the exact identification to the species level among …

… differentiating each member of the mitis group of the genus … was located within the
Streptococcus mitis cluster, but the … less than 79% accuracy within the mitis group (Kawamura, …

… current phenotypic identification procedures to differentiate the S. mitis group has been well
… mitis group by conventional methods. The bacterial recombinase A gene (recA), which has …

… VGS bacteremia, mostly associated with Streptococcus mitis, which in a … difference is probably
likely due to a much lower amount of polysaccharide produced by Mitis group streptococci …

… The accurate taxonomic assignment of the clusters requires further investigation. This also
… tigurinus included N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase activity as a differentiating character …

… , is too low to differentiate S. pneumoniae from closely related species such as Streptococcus
pseudopneumoniae, Streptococcus mitis, and Streptococcus oralis in the routine clinical …

… , Streptococcus mitis and Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae are closely related species of
viridans group streptococci (… In this study, we investigated the accuracy of MALDI-TOF MS for …