TABLE 3.
Clinical and laboratory data for patients with false-positive results by ODK0501a
| Patient | Final diagnosis | Gender, age (yr) | Underlying disease | Prior antibiotic therapy | Sputum finding | Binax Now S. pneumoniae antigen test result | No. of copies/μg DNAb | Time from symptom onset until assay performance (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pneumonia | M, 43 | Bronchial asthma | None | ND | − | 2 × 106 | 4 |
| 2 | Pneumonia | M, 79 | COPD | SBT-ABPC, CAM | Aspergillus spp. | + | 6 × 106 | 1 |
| 3 | Pneumonia | M, 62 | Bronchiectasis | None | Haemophilus influenzae | − | 7 × 102 | 2 |
| 4 | Pneumonia | F, 90 | None | CTM-HE | ND | + | 3 × 107 | 6 |
| 5 | Chronic bronchitis | F, 50 | None | None | Mixed oral flora | − | 1 × 104 | 3 |
a
M, male; F, female; SBT-ABPC, sulbactam-ampicillin; CAM, clarithromycin; CTM-HE, cefotiam-hexetil; ND, not detectable.
b
Determined by S. pneumoniae real-time PCR.