TABLE 1.
Primers used to detect pneumococcal serogroup 6 serotypes
| Target and primer | Sequence (5′–3′) | PCR product size |
Reference(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6C + 6D | 6E | |||
| Transposon between dexB and wzy | ||||
| dexBF2 | TCCATGGGATGCTTTCTGTGTGG | 2.1 kbp | 4.8 kbp | 4 |
| 3120R | CGAAGTGAAGTTCAATCGCAC | |||
| Insertion sequences between wciN and wciO | ||||
| 5106F | TACCATGCAGGGTGGAATGT | 1.8 kbp | 2.3 kbp, 1,267 bp | 3, 10 |
| 5101F | ATTTGGTGTACTTCCTCC | |||
| 3101R | CCATCCTTCGAGTATTGC | |||
| 9-nt deletion in wze | ||||
| 5113F2 | CGAATACGGTTCTTATGGAAGTTAT | None | 500 bp | This study |
| 3122R3 | CTGATTCTATTAGTCTATCCAATACC | |||