A case-control study to assess the urinary pneumococcal antigen test in childhood pneumonia

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 286-288

  Elemraid, Mohamed A ^a,b   Rushton, Stephen P ^b   Clark, Julia E ^a,b   Perry, John D ^a   Thomas, Matthew F ^a,b   Sails, Andrew D ^c   Gennery, Andrew R ^a,b   Spencer, David A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED KINGDOM; URINE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84894222201     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922813502122     Document Type: Article

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