Tomoko Ohno, Hiroyuki Suematsu, Akiko Nakamura, Yuzuka Kawamoto, Narimi Miyazaki, Daisuke Sakanashi, Atsuko Yamada, Isao Koita, Hiroki Watanabe, Nobuhiro Asai, Yusuke Koizumi, Yuka Yamagishi, Hiroshige Mikamo
Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the major bacterial pathogens of community-acquired pneumonia. Immunochromatographic assay tests are used to detect pneumococcal capsular antigen. In many cases, They can be read visually. The Alere™ reader (Reader), which was developed in October 2018 by Alere Medical Co., Ltd. (currently, Abbott Diagnostics Medical Co., Ltd.) for interpreting BinaxNOW™ Streptococcus pneumoniae test (BinaxNOW™), quickly displays the results of the immunochromatographic tests, objectively and accurately, as it was launched for the purpose of streamlining laboratory workflow...
December 25, 2019: JARMAM: Journal of the Association for Rapid Method and Automation in Microbiology