Usefulness of pneumococcal antigen detection in pleural fluid samples by immunochromatographic assay for diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 682-684

  Andreo, F ^a   Dominguez J ^a   Ruiz Manzano, J ^b   Prat, C ^a   Blanco, S ^a   Lores, L ^a   Sanchez M D ^a   Latorre, I ^a   Gimenez M ^a   Ausina, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antigen detection; Immunochromatographic test; Pleural fluid; Pneumococcal pneumonia; Streptococcuspneumoniae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTER IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URINALYSIS;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 33744906092     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01484.x     Document Type: Article

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