A prospective study of urinary pneumococcal antigen detection in healthy Karen mothers with high rates of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Turner, Paul ^a,b,c   Turner, Claudia ^a,b,c   Kaewcharernnet, Napaphat ^a   Mon, Naw Y ^a   Goldblatt, David ^d   Nosten, François ^a,b,c  

^a SHOKLO MALARIA RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL OXFORD TROPICAL MEDICINE RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; PNEUMOCOCCUS ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE SMEAR; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE; URINALYSIS; URINE; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTHER; MYANMAR; NASOPHARYNX; REFUGEE; STATISTICS; THAILAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CARRIER STATE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHERS; MYANMAR; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFUGEES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THAILAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955077601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-108     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Carbonara S, Monno L, Longo B, Angarano G. Community-acquired pneumonia. Curr Opin Pulm Med 2009, 15(3):261-273. 10.1097/MCP.0b013e3283287c3f, 19387263.
2. Werno AM, Murdoch DR. Medical microbiology: laboratory diagnosis of invasive pneumococcal disease. Clin Infect Dis 2008, 46(6):926-932. 10.1086/528798, 18260752.
3. Klugman KP, Madhi SA, Albrich WC. Novel approaches to the identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae as the cause of community-acquired pneumonia. Clin Infect Dis 2008, 47(Suppl 3):S202-206.
4. Boulware DR, Daley CL, Merrifield C, Hopewell PC, Janoff EN. Rapid diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia among HIV-infected adults with urine antigen detection. J Infect 2007, 55(4):300-309. 10.1016/j.jinf.2007.06.014, 2039755, 17692384.
5. Adegbola RA, Obaro SK, Biney E, Greenwood BM. Evaluation of Binax now Streptococcus pneumoniae urinary antigen test in children in a community with a high carriage rate of pneumococcus. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2001, 20(7):718-719. 10.1097/00006454-200107000-00018, 11465850.
6. Dominguez J, Blanco S, Rodrigo C, Azuara M, Gali N, Mainou A, Esteve A, Castellvi A, Prat C, Matas L, et al. Usefulness of urinary antigen detection by an immunochromatographic test for diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia in children. J Clin Microbiol 2003, 41(5):2161-2163. 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2161-2163.2003, 154691, 12734268.
7. Dowell SF, Garman RL, Liu G, Levine OS, Yang YH. Evaluation of Binax NOW, an assay for the detection of pneumococcal antigen in urine samples, performed among pediatric patients. Clin Infect Dis 2001, 32(5):824-825. 10.1086/319205, 11229853.
8. Faden H, Heimerl M, Varma C, Goodman G, Winkelstein P. Urinary excretion of pneumococcal cell wall polysaccharide in children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2002, 21(8):791-793.
9. Hamer DH, Egas J, Estrella B, MacLeod WB, Griffiths JK, Sempertegui F. Assessment of the Binax NOW Streptococcus pneumoniae urinary antigen test in children with nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage. Clin Infect Dis 2002, 34(7):1025-1028. 10.1086/339446, 11880971.
10. Hussain M, Melegaro A, Pebody RG, George R, Edmunds WJ, Talukdar R, Martin SA, Efstratiou A, Miller E. A longitudinal household study of Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal carriage in a UK setting. Epidemiol Infect 2005, 133(5):891-898. 10.1017/S0950268805004012, 2870321, 16181510.
11. Marcos MA, Jimenez de Anta MT, de la Bellacasa JP, Gonzalez J, Martinez E, Garcia E, Mensa J, de Roux A, Torres A. Rapid urinary antigen test for diagnosis of pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia in adults. Eur Respir J 2003, 21(2):209-214. 10.1183/09031936.03.00058802, 12608431.
12. Turner C, Turner P, Jankhot A, Mee Mee N, Nosten F, Goldblatt D. Pneumococcal carriage and clinical pneumonia episodes in under one year old refugee children on the Thailand-Myanmar border (Poster 194). 7th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases: 2010; Tel Aviv, Israel 2010,
13. O'Brien KL, Nohynek H. Report from a WHO Working Group: standard method for detecting upper respiratory carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2003, 22(2):e1-11.
14. Seed P. DIAGT: Stata module to report summary statistics for diagnostic tests compared to true disease status. Stata J 2001, 4:490.
15. Andreo F, Prat C, Ruiz-Manzano J, Lores L, Blanco S, Cuesta MA, Gimenez M, Dominguez J. Persistence of Streptococcus pneumoniae urinary antigen excretion after pneumococcal pneumonia. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2009, 28(2):197-201. 10.1007/s10096-008-0606-3, 18830727.