Clinical Study

Prevalence and Utility of Positive Pneumococcal Urinary Antigen Tests in Australian Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Table 2

Diagnostic tests leading to the confirmation of definite or probable pneumococcal pneumonia.

Diagnostic test positiveNumber of patients

Blood culture only1
Sputum culture only4
Blood culture + Sputum1
UATonly8
Blood culture + UAT3
Blood culture + Sputum + UAT2

Total19

Abbreviation—UAT: pneumococcal urine antigen test.