Patent ID: 8043812

Claim:
A method of detecting Streptococcus pneumoniae comprising: amplifying by isothermal amplification at least a portion of a lytA gene derived from Streptococcus pneumoniae using a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) primer set, wherein the primer set is at least one selected from the group consisting of combinations of nucleotide sequences described in the following (a) to (e): (a) a combination of the nucleotide sequences as shown in SEQ ID NOS: 1, 2, 3, and 4; (b) a combination of the nucleotide sequences as shown in SEQ ID NOS: 5, 2, 3, and 4; (c) a combination of the nucleotide sequences as shown in SEQ ID NOS: 6, 7, 8, and 4; (d) a combination of the nucleotide sequences as shown in SEQ ID NOS: 9, 10, 11, and 12; and (e) a combination of the nucleotide sequences as shown in SEQ ID NOS: 23, 24, 15, 4, and 25; and then detecting the obtained amplified product.