Publication Type : Journal Article
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Source : Tropical Doctor
Url : https://doi.org/10.1177/0049475519889717
Campus : Faridabad
School : School of Medicine
Department : Microbiology
Year : 2019
Abstract :
Streptococcus pneumoniae infections continue to be an important cause of morbidity and mortality in low-and middle-income countries. Differentiating S. pneumoniae from viridans group streptococci is essential to ensure appropriate antibiotic therapy. Conventional microbial identification tests can often misidentify the two groups. We used a common pneumococcal urinary antigen test to identify S. pneumoniae that were misidentified by the VITEK 2. The performance of the test was similar to the pneumococcal latex agglutination test.
Cite this Research Publication : Sadia Khan, Sona P Hydrose, Sabthami Chandran, Kavitha Dinesh, Anil Kumar, A novel use of pneumococcal urinary antigen detection kits to identify Streptococcus pneumoniae cultures misidentified by the VITEK-2 system, Tropical Doctor, SAGE Publications, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/0049475519889717
