Use of serology and urine antigen detection to estimate the proportion of adult community-acquired pneumonia attributable to Streptococcus pneumoniae

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1796-1803

  Watt, J P ^a   Moisi J C ^a   Donaldson, R L A ^a   Reid, R ^a   Ferro, S ^b   Whitney, C G ^c   Santosham, M ^a   O'Brien, K L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Sanofi Pasteur   (Canada)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Community acquired pneumonia; Laboratory tests; Pneumococcal infection

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PNEUMOCOCCAL SURFACE ANTIGEN A; PNEUMOCOCCAL SURFACE PROTEIN A; PNEUMOCOCCUS ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADHESIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; LIPOPROTEIN; PSAA PROTEIN, STREPTOCOCCUS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD CULTURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; URINE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 78149238573     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000555     Document Type: Article

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