Ninety-nine urine samples (boiled) selected from positive
S. pneumoniae samples in the routine laboratory at SSI, and 71 urine
samples (un-boiled) from patients with a positive blood culture for
S. pneumoniae were tested in the ImmuView® S. pneumoniae and
L. pneumophila Urinary Antigen Test and the BinaxNOW® S. pneumoniae
Antigen Card lateral flow test. For both of the lateral flow tests, the
urine samples should be un-boiled, but since we routinely boil the urine
samples for our in-house pneumococcus urine antigen test, we did not
have antigen-positive un-boiled urine samples available. The 71 urine
samples from patients with a positive blood culture had an unknown
antigen status before this investigation