A novel use of pneumococcal urinary antigen detection kits to identify Streptococcus pneumoniae cultures misidentified by the VITEK-2 system.

A novel use of pneumococcal urinary antigen detection kits to identify Streptococcus pneumoniae cultures misidentified by the VITEK-2 system. Trop Doct. 2019 Nov 26;:49475519889717 Authors: Khan S, Hydrose SP, Chandran S, Dinesh K, Kumar A 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. PMID: 31771427 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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