TABLE 4.
Patient | Final diagnosis | Gender, age (yr) | Underlying disease | Prior antibiotic therapy | Result of Gram stain for S. pneumoniae | Binax Now S. pneumoniae antigen test result | No. of copies/μg DNAb | Time from symptom onset until assay performance (days) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pneumonia | M, 28 | None | None | + | − | 6 × 106 | 1 |
2 | Pneumonia | M, 65 | COPD | None | − | − | 1 × 106 | 3 |
3 | Pneumonia | M, 33 | None | CAM, CAZ | + | + | 9 × 106 | 5 |
4 | Pneumonia | F, 33 | None | None | − | − | 5 × 105 | 2 |
5 | Pneumonia | M, 42 | Interstitial pneumonia | SBTPC | + | Not tested | 4 × 105 | 2 |
6 | Pneumonia | M, 64 | Collagen disease | CTRX | − | − | 1 × 105 | 6 |
CAM, clarithromycin; CAZ, ceftazidime; SBTPC, sultamicillin; CTRX, ceftriaxone.
Determined by S. pneumoniae real-time PCR.