Performance of a pneumolysin enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for diagnosis of pneumococcal infections
del Mar García-Suárez M;Cima-Cabal MD;Villaverde R;Espinosa E;Falguera M;de Los Toyos JR;Vázquez F;Méndez FJ;;
Journal of clinical microbiology2007Vol. 45pp. -
300
m2007journalperformance
Abstract
A pneumolysin-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (PLY-ELISA) for the detection of pneumolysin in urine was developed and evaluated in comparison with the commercially available Binax Now Streptococcus pneumoniae test (Binax, Portland, ME) for the diagnosis of pneumococcal infections. Assay s …