Clinical Utility of Urinary Antigen Detection for Diagnosis of Community-Acquired, Travel-Associated, and Nosocomial Legionnaires' Disease
AUTOR(ES)
Helbig, Jürgen H.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The clinical utility of Legionella urinary antigen assays for the diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease was assessed by using samples from 317 culture-proven cases. The sensitivities of the Binax enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and Biotest EIA were found to be 93.7 and 94.4% for travel-associated infection and 86.5 and 76.0% for community-acquired infection but only 44.2 and 45.7% for nosocomially acquired infection, respectively.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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