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Clinical usefulness of pneumococcal urinary antigen test, stratified by disease severity and serotypes

Early diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia facilitates appropriate antibiotic therapy. The urinary antigen test (UAT) is known to be useful for the diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia. This study aimed to evaluate the usefulness of UAT in the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugated vaccine (PCV13) era. Com...

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Autores principales: Choi, Min Joo, Song, Joon Young, Cheong, Hee Jin, Jeon, Ji Ho, Kang, Seong Hui, Jung, Eun Ju, Noh, Ji Yun, Kim, Woo Joo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26212866
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiac.2015.06.003