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Volume 16, Number 6—June 2010
Research

Increase in Pilus Islet 2–encoded Pili among Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Dorothea ZähnerComments to Author , Aditya Gudlavalleti, and David S. Stephens
Author affiliations: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (D. Zähner, A. Gudlavalleti, D.S. Stephens); Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Atlanta (D. Zähner, D.S. Stephens)

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Table 1

Primers used in this study of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 1994–2006*†

Region Primer Sequence (5′ → 3′)‡
Erm cassette erm_F gctctagaCGTTAGATTAATTCCTACCAGTGAC

erm_R
gctctagaCTCCATTCCCTTTAGTAACGTGTAAC
PI-2 pepT_F TAAGAAGCGGTCCAAGAGATTTGG
hemH_R AATAATGGGGCTCCAAAATCAAGC
sipA_up_F CTCTAGGAGGGATCTTCTTTATCATC
sipA_do_R CTACAGCCGTTGTTCGATTGTCC
PilA_del_3 gcaattgcccgggcctagCCTGTATAGGGATGGTTCCAAAAG
PilA_del_2 ctaggcccgggcaattgcGCTGGGGGCAGATGATG

Rlr_up_F
CTTCCACGAAGTTCTTTCAATGG
PI-1 Rlr_do_R GTCTTAGAATATCATGGTTTACGTGC
Rlr_srtC_F GGGGAAGATTATGCGACCTT
Rlr_srtD_R GCTTGGCTCTGCACGGTGCC

*PI, pilus islet.
†Not included are primers used for sequencing and multilocus sequence typing.
‡Lowercase letters represent bases added for mutagenesis; uppercase letters represent bases complementary to S. pneumoniae.

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