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PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL
Volume 20, Issue 7, Pages 718-719Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-200107000-00018
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Streptococcus pneumoniae; nasopharyngeal colonization; urinary antigen detection; Binax NOW
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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.
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