Assessment of the Binax NOW Streptococcus pneumoniae urinary antigen test in children with nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage
Abstract
We evaluated the Binax NOW Streptococcus pneumoniae urinary antigen assay by testing 210 healthy children aged 2--60 months living in urban slums of Quito, Ecuador. Healthy children with nasopharyngeal carriage of S. pneumoniae were significantly more likely to have positive urinary antigen test res …
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCBI
NLM
MEDLINE
humans
pubmed abstract
nih
national institutes of health
national library of medicine
research support
non-u.s. gov't
Child
Infant
preschool
Antigens
sensitivity and specificity
Evaluation Study
davidson h hamer
streptococcus pneumoniae / isolation & purification*
bacterial / urine*
false positive reactions
reagent kits
diagnostic*
carrier state / epidemiology
carrier state / microbiology
pmid:11880971
doi:10.1086/339446
josefina egas
fernando sempértegui
nasopharyngeal diseases / microbiology
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