… commensal streptococci – Streptococcus mitis – expressing pneumococcal serotype 1
capsule, which were discovered during a 2015–2016 study of pneumococcal colonization in US …

… Subsequently, employing standard culture methodology we readily isolated a Streptococcus
mitis strain that was PCR-positive for the serotype 5-specific wzy5 gene (strain KE67013 …

… the presence of pneumococcal virulence factors in a cohort of streptococci from the … mitis
(R77 C4) isolates. The capsular genes were not those of any known pneumococcal serotype, …

… pneumococcal capsular serotypes. The test was performed according to the manufacturer's
instructions. Capsular serotyping … could not be subject to capsular serotyping, while smooth …

… associated with Streptococcus mitis, … Mitis group streptococci to their counterparts in S.
pneumoniae challenges the use of multiplex PCR for direct detection of pneumococcal serotypes, …

… pneumococcal isolates than A-OPs. Verified and suspected non-pneumococcal cmPCR
serotypes/… Our findings indicate that non-pneumococcal species can confound serotype-specific …

… in the genome sequence database, ANIb analyses were performed, with each genome
sequence being compared to that of the type strain of each species of the Streptococcus mitis …

… humans, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and the commensal Streptococcus mitis are closely …
identities of flippases of several pneumococcal serotypes to those of strains of a range of …

… and Streptococcus mitis … Mitis streptococci, usually negative in serotyping and/or presenting
MLST profiles composed of new alleles, divergent from those characteristic for pneumococci. …

… non-pneumococcal streptococci and individual pneumococcal carriage serotypes, genotypes
and … We propose the hypothesis that pneumococcal serotypes that frequently colonise the …