Rapid urinary antigen testing for the investigation of bacteraemic respiratory pneumococcal disease; underutilised and undervalued?

J Infect. 2017 Feb;74(2):198-200. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2016.08.018. Epub 2016 Sep 3.

Authors

Ciara O'Connor¹, Fintan O'Hara², Cormac McCarthy², Ross Morgan², Hilary Humphreys³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland. Electronic address: ciaroconnor@rcsi.ie.
² Department of Respiratory Medicine, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
³ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

PMID: 27595640
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2016.08.018

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Antigens, Bacterial
Bacteremia
Humans
Pneumococcal Infections*
Pneumonia, Pneumococcal
Streptococcus pneumoniae*

Substances

Antigens, Bacterial