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6348178

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1983-9-23
pubmed:abstractText
Between 1965 and 1979 inclusive, 426 morning urine specimens from 410 patients admitted to hospital with the provisional diagnosis of measles were tested for measles antigen by fluorescent-antibody methods. One hundred and forty-two specimens (33.3 per cent) were positive. Of 74 patients who were clinically assessed not to have measles, 6/77 specimens (7.8 per cent) gave false positive results, and 71/77 (92.2 per cent) gave true negative results. Three hundred and forty-nine urine specimens were tested from 336 patients clinically judged to have had measles and 136 of these specimens (39 per cent) were positive. The positive rate was highest in a small number of specimens taken before the rash and next highest at the onset of the rash. The positive rate then fell; it rose again near the end of the first week, but the further increased positive rate after that time was associated with very small numbers of specimens. Of 12 child contacts of measles, 5/12 (41.67 per cent) had positive urine specimens and one of them developed measles two days after sampling. None of the seven patients with negative urine specimens developed measles. Measles antigen was detected in urine sediment by fluorescent-antibody tests in 39 per cent of the patients with measles studied.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0163-4453
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
163-70
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1983
pubmed:articleTitle
A fourteen-year study to identify measles antigen in urine specimens by fluorescent-antibody methods.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article