| Literature DB >> 16760332 |
Tsutomu Yamazaki1, Mitsuo Narita, Nozomu Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Kenri, Yoshichika Arakawa, Tsuguo Sasaki.
Abstract
Passive agglutination (PA) and immunoglobulin M (IgM), IgA, and IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for the diagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae were compared with PCR testing of sputum samples obtained from children with lower respiratory tract infections. The sensitivity and specificity of PA were 80.3% and 92.3% at a titer of 1:80. ELISA was found to be less sensitive than PA.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16760332 PMCID: PMC1489559 DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00413-05
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Vaccine Immunol ISSN: 1556-679X