Contribution of a Urinary Antigen Assay (Binax NOW) to the Early Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 222-226

  Rosón, Beatriz ^a   Fernández Sabé, Nuria ^a   Carratalà, Jordi ^a   Verdaguer, Ricard ^a   Dorca, Jordi ^a   Manresa, Frederic ^a   Gudiol, Francesc ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 1642497534     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380639     Document Type: Article

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