Rapid bacterial antigen detection is not clinically useful

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1995
Latex agglutination (LA) of capsular polysaccharide bacterial antigen is a frequently performed laboratory procedure, but its use is controversial. To assess the clinical utility of this test, we reviewed all LA tests performed over a 10-month period at two sites, a major university-based referral c …
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Authors Perkins MD;Mirrett S;Reller LB;;
Journal Journal of clinical microbiology
Year 1995
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National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine adult adolescent Child Infant newborn preschool Retrospective Studies Antigens bacterial infections / microbiology evaluation studies as topic pmid:7650172 pmc228201 doi:10.1128/jcm.33.6.1486-1491.1995 m d perkins s mirrett l b reller bacterial / isolation & purification* bacterial infections / diagnosis* cross reactions false positive reactions haemophilus infections / diagnosis haemophilus influenzae / immunology latex fixation tests* / statistics & numerical data meningococcal infections / diagnosis neisseria meningitidis / immunology pneumococcal infections / diagnosis streptococcal infections / diagnosis streptococcus / immunology streptococcus pneumoniae / immunology

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