PEDIATRICS Vol. 71 No. 5 May 1983, pp. 780-783
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Counterimmunoelectrophoresis of Urine for Diagnosis of Bacterial Pneumonia in Pediatric Outpatients

Ronald B. Turner MD1, Frederick G. Hayden MD1, and J. Owen Hendley MD1

1 From the Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville

Thirty-eight pediatric outpatients with pneumonia were studied by counterimmunoelectrophoresis for the presence of Haemophilus influenzae type b or pneumococcal antigenuria. Of the 38 patients eight (21%) hadH influenzae type b antigenuria and two (5%) had pneumococcal antigenuria. H influenzae, type b antigenuria was detected more frequently in patients <2 years of age than in older children. Urine counterimmunoelectrophoriesis appears to be a useful tool for the etiologic diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia and should facilitate further studies of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and clinical spectrum of this disease.

Key Words: counterimmunoelectrophoresis • bacterial pneumonia

Submitted on May 27, 1982
Accepted on August 3, 1982