Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 67, Issue 2 , Pages 129-133 , June 2010

Performance measure of urinary antigen in patients with Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteremia

  • John Selickman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. John Selickman is to be contacted at 821 Douglas Ave, Unit 105, Minneapolis, MN 55403, USA. Tel.: +1-651-955-6311. Hector Bonilla, 75 Arch Street #105, Akron, OH 44304, USA. Tel.: +1-330-375-3894.
    • ,
  • Mihail Paxos

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    • ,
  • Thomas M. File Jr.

      Affiliations

    • Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA
    • Department of Internal Medicine, Summa Health System, Akron, OH 44304, USA
    • ,
  • Ryan Seltzer

      Affiliations

    • HealthCare Partnership, Department of Psychology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
    • ,
  • Hector Bonilla

      Affiliations

    • Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA
    • Department of Internal Medicine, Summa Health System, Akron, OH 44304, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. John Selickman is to be contacted at 821 Douglas Ave, Unit 105, Minneapolis, MN 55403, USA. Tel.: +1-651-955-6311. Hector Bonilla, 75 Arch Street #105, Akron, OH 44304, USA. Tel.: +1-330-375-3894.

Received 15 September 2009 ,Accepted 13 January 2010.

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☆ Institution at which work was performed: Summa Health System, 75 Arch Street #105, Akron, OH, 44303.

PII: S0732-8893(10)00009-X

doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.01.005

Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 67, Issue 2 , Pages 129-133 , June 2010

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