Table 2.

Candidate genes used for differentiation and diagnosis of various Streptococcus bacterial agents

Candidate gene	References
Manganese-dependent superoxide dismutase gene (sodA)	Kitten et al., 2012; Poyart et al., 2000
Heat shock protein (groESL)	Hung et al., 2013; Teng et al., 2014
Ribosomal protein (rpoB)	Drancourt et al., 2013
Recombination and repair protein (recN)	Hung et al., 2013
Repair protein recN	Glazunova et al., 2013
Lactate oxidase gene (lctO)	Zlotkin et al., 1998
rRNA	Clarridge et al., 2002
RNA polymerase	Drancourt et al., 2004
D-alanine-D-alanine ligase	Garnier et al., 1997
b-subunit of the elongation factor	Picard et al., 2004
Polysaccharide capsules gene (cps)	Lowe et al., 2007
Invasion associated gene (iag)	Rajagopal, 2009
Surface immunogenic protein (sip)	Springman et al., 2009
C5a peptidase (scp)	Springman et al., 2009
Serine protease (csp)	Springman et al., 2009
tRNA gene intergenic spacer region (ITS)	Tung et al., 2007