CLINICAL CASE

Identification of the atypical bacterial strain Streptococcus intermedius that caused brain abscess in the patient using Sanger sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene from the DNA extracted from a pus sample

Gordukova MA1, Divilina YuV1, Mishukova OV2, Galeeva EV1, Prodeus AP1, Filipenko ML2
About authors

1 Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory,
Speransky Children's Clinical Hospital No. 9, Moscow, Russia

2 Laboratory of Pharmacogenomics,
Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Maria Gordukova
Shmitovsky proezd, d. 29, Moscow, Russia, 123317; ur.9-bkgd@avokudrog.am

About paper

All authors' contribution to this work is equal: selection and analysis of literature, research planning, data collection, analysis, and interpretation, drafting of a manuscript, editing.

Received: 2017-07-04 Accepted: 2017-08-04 Published online: 2017-10-31
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Levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) of the patient
Note. CRP reference values 0.1–8.2 mg/l; ESR reference values 0–20 mm/h. Values outside the reference interval are shown in bold.