[[[ Introduction and objective: ]]] Although urine pneumococcal antigen is an useful test, it has false positives such as pneumococcal vaccination. [[[ Material and methods: ]]] Positive urine pneumococcal antigen in Hospital de Denia (January-February/2015). We studied epidemiological, radiological and microbiological variables as well as previous pneumococcal vaccination (neumo-23 and/or neumo-13). [[[ Results: ]]] Urine pneumococcal antigen test was positive in 12.4% of 385 cases. Only 33.3% of positive cases had pneumonia in chest X-ray, and 35.4% of patients had previous pneumococcal vaccination. In most cases (87.5%), an antibiotic was prescribed. [[[ Conclusions: ]]] Pneumococcal vaccination can produce a false positive result in the urine pneumococcal antigen test in clinical practice, leading to an unnecessary prescription of antibiotics.
Antigenuria positiva a neumococo y vacunación
폐렴구균 항원뇨 양성 및 예방접종
[Category] 폐렴구균 감염증,
[Article Type] journal-article
[Source] pubmed
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