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Alejandro Salinas-Botrán¹, Patricia Martín-Rico¹, Antonio Valdivia²

¹Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital de Denia, Denia, Alicante, España.

Medicina Clinica

|January 3, 2016

Abstract

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.

Keywords:

False positive Falso positivo Neumococo Pneumococcus Vaccination Vacunación

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