Patent ID: 8357488

Claim:
A method for detecting a Streptococcus pneumoniae nucleic acid in a sample, comprising: contacting the sample with at least one probe capable of hybridizing under very high stringency conditions to a Streptococcus pneumoniae nucleic acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 13, wherein the nucleotide sequence of the probe consists of the nucleotide sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 5; amplifying a S. pneumoniae nucleic acid by contacting the sample with a forward primer consisting of the nucleic acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 3 and a reverse primer consisting of the nucleic acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 4; and detecting hybridization between the Streptococcus pneumoniae nucleic acid and the probe, wherein the detection of hybridization indicates the presence of the Streptococcus pneumoniae nucleic acid in the sample.