Evaluation of Binax NOW Streptococcus pneumoniae urinary antigen test in children in a community with a high carriage rate of pneumococcus
Adegbola, RA;
Obaro, SK;
Biney, E;
Greenwood, BM;
(2001)
Evaluation of Binax NOW Streptococcus pneumoniae urinary antigen test in children in a community with a high carriage rate of pneumococcus.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal, 20 (7).
pp. 718-9.
ISSN 0891-3668
https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/17206
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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.
