Rapid bacterial antigen detection is not clinically useful
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Rapid bacterial antigen detection is not clinically useful.
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 center and a private specialty pediatric hospital. Samples were assayed either individually or as ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.33.6.1486-1491.1995