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Revista Cubana de Medicina Tropical
Print version ISSN 0375-0760On-line version ISSN 1561-3054
Abstract
GUZMAN HERNANDEZ, Daymi et al. Primer reporte de Neisseria polysaccharea en Cuba. Rev Cubana Med Trop [online]. 1999, vol.51, n.2, pp.133-134. ISSN 0375-0760.
The National Laboratory of Reference of Pathogenic Neisserias of «Pedro Kourí» Tropical Medicine Institute studied 58 strains which had been previously identified as Neisseria meningiditis and isolated from nasopharyngeal carriers from 1985-1998. They were applied the knapp detection scheme plus the glutamiltransferase production test. The latter and the polyscharide production based on 5 % sacarose allowed to make a differential diagnosis between N. meningitidis and Neisseria polyccharea. It was possible to identify a N. polysaccharia strain, a species that is reported for the first time in Cuba.
Keywords : NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; NEISSERIACHAE; INFECTIONS [diagnosis]; MICROBIOLOGY.