Usefulness of Urinary Antigen Detection by an Immunochromatographic Test for Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Children

We evaluated an immunochromatographic assay detecting pneumococcal antigen in urine samples from children diagnosed with pneumococcal pneumonia. The sensitivity and specificity of the immunochromatographic test with nonconcentrated urine (NCU) were 86.7 and 62.9%, respectively; with concentrated uri...

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Veröffentlicht in:	J Clin Microbiol
Hauptverfasser:	Domínguez, J., Blanco, S., Rodrigo, C., Azuara, M., Galí, N., Mainou, A., Esteve, A., Castellví, A., Prat, C., Matas, L., Ausina, V.
Format:	Artigo
Sprache:	Inglês
Veröffentlicht:	American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2003
Schlagworte:	Bacteriology
Online-Zugang:	https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC154691/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12734268/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.41.5.2161-2163.2003
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