Laboratory diagnosis of Streptococcus pneumoniae infections: past and future

Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the most important causative agent of pneumonia, meningitis, bacteremia, sinusitis and otitis media. The gold standard diagnostic method is still culture evenif bacteriological diagnosis is making progress in molecular biol- ogy and in proteomics areas. The full article is free available on www.jpmh.or