Antibiotic resistance pattern, capsular types, and molecular characterization of invasive isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the south of Tunisia from 2012 to 2018

Table 1 The primer sets used to detect erythromycin and tetracycline genes

Target	Primer sequence	Reference
ermB	5′-GAAAAAGTACTCAACCAAATA-3′ 5′-AGTAATGGTACTTAAATTGTTTAC-3′	[22]
mefA/E	5′-GCGTTTAAGATAAGCTGGCA-3′ 5′-CCTGCACCATTTGCTCCTAC-3′	[23]
tetM	5′-AGTTTTAGCTCATGTTGATG-3′ 5′-TCCGACTATTTGGACGACGG-3′	[24]
tetO	5′-ACGGARAGTTTATTGTATACC-3′ 5′-TGGCGTATCTATAATGTTGAC-3′	[25]

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