Evaluation of Binax now Streptococcus pneumoniae urinary antigen test in children in a community with a high carriage rate of pneumococcus.

Authors :: Adegbola RA
Obaro SK
Biney E
Greenwood BM
Source :: The Pediatric infectious disease journal [Pediatr Infect Dis J] 2001 Jul; Vol. 20 (7), pp. 718-9.
Publication Year :: 2001
Abstract: Pneumococcal antigen was present in urine from 49 of 102 well Gambian children. Eighty-nine of the 102 were nasopharyngeal carriers of pneumococci. The positive predictive value for carriage was 96%, and the negative predictive value was 22%. The test is not useful for predicting etiology of disease in populations with a high rate of nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococci.

Subjects :: Carrier State urine
Child, Preschool
Community-Acquired Infections diagnosis
Community-Acquired Infections urine
Gambia
Humans
Nasopharynx microbiology
Pneumococcal Infections immunology
Predictive Value of Tests
Streptococcus pneumoniae isolation & purification
Antigens, Bacterial urine
Pneumococcal Infections diagnosis
Pneumococcal Infections urine
Streptococcus pneumoniae immunology

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