Current and potential usefulness of pneumococcal urinary antigen detection in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia to guide antimicrobial therapy

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 166-172

  Sordé, Roger ^a,b   Falcó, Vicenç ^a   Lowak, Michael ^a   Domingo, Eva ^a   Ferrer, Adelaida ^a   Burgos, Joaquin ^a   Puig, Mireia ^a   Cabral, Evelyn ^a,b   Len, Oscar ^a,b   Pahissa, Albert ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANAEROBE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; GRAM STAINING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PLEURA FLUID; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URINALYSIS; URINARY ANTIGEN TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPUTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79251575286     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.347     Document Type: Article

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