Contribution of a urinary antigen assay (Binax NOW) to the early diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia
Abstract
We evaluated the usefulness of a rapid urinary antigen test (Binax NOW; Binax) to detect Streptococcus pneumoniae for the early diagnosis of community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia (PP) in 220 nonseverely immunosuppressed adults. We compared results of this test with those of sputum Gram staining. …
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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
adult
Comparative Study
Antigens
sensitivity and specificity
Evaluation Study
pneumonia
pneumococcal / diagnosis*
pneumococcal / microbiology
streptococcus pneumoniae / isolation & purification*
bacterial / urine*
pmid:14699454
doi:10.1086/380639
beatriz rosón
nuria fernández-sabé
francesc gudiol
pneumococcal infections / diagnosis*
reagent kits
diagnostic*
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