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Prognostic value of pneumococcal urinary antigen test in community-acquired pneumonia

BACKGROUND: The pneumococcal urinary antigen test (UAT) has been known to improve sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia. Associations of UAT results with prognosis in community acquired pneumonia (CAP) are not known. We hypothesized that positive UAT is associated w...

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Autores principales: Kim, Byunghyun, Kim, Joonghee, Jo, You Hwan, Lee, Jae Hyuk, Hwang, Ji Eun, Park, Min Ji, Lee, Sihyung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6054390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30028834
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200620