Rapid bacterial antigen detection is not clinically useful
Abstract
Latex agglutination (LA) of capsular polysaccharide bacterial antigen is a frequently performed laboratory procedure, but its use is controversial. To assess the clinical utility of this test, we reviewed all LA tests performed over a 10-month period at two sites, a major university-based referral c …
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCBI
NLM
MEDLINE
humans
pubmed abstract
nih
national institutes of health
national library of medicine
adult
adolescent
Child
Infant
newborn
preschool
Retrospective Studies
Antigens
bacterial infections / microbiology
evaluation studies as topic
pmid:7650172
pmc228201
doi:10.1128/jcm.33.6.1486-1491.1995
m d perkins
s mirrett
l b reller
bacterial / isolation & purification*
bacterial infections / diagnosis*
cross reactions
false positive reactions
haemophilus infections / diagnosis
haemophilus influenzae / immunology
latex fixation tests* / statistics & numerical data
meningococcal infections / diagnosis
neisseria meningitidis / immunology
pneumococcal infections / diagnosis
streptococcal infections / diagnosis
streptococcus / immunology
streptococcus pneumoniae / immunology
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