Immunochromatography in CSF improves data on surveillance of S. pneumoniae meningitis in India

• Main Authors: Yuvaraj Jayaraman (Author), Sanjay Mehendale (Author), Ranjith Jayaraman (Author), Rosemol Varghese (Author), Girish K. Chethrapilly Purushothaman (Author), Prabu Rajkumar (Author), Bharathy Sukumar (Author), Rajamohanan K. Pillai (Author), Girija Mohan (Author), Devasena N. Radhakrishnan (Author), Sujatha Sridharan (Author), Narayan Babu (Author), Mathevan Ganesapillai (Author), Sugandhi P. Rao (Author), Shantanu K. Kar (Author), Vikas Manchanda (Author), Anil Kanga (Author), Valsan P. Verghese (Author), Balaji Veeraraghavan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Streptococcus pneumoniae is a significant cause of childhood bacterial meningitis in India. The United States Food and Drug Administration has licensed an immunochromatographic (ICT) test, Binax®NOW™, to detect the C polysaccharide antigen of S. pneumoniae in cerebrospinal fluids (CSF)...