Comparison between the STANDARD™ F S. Pneumoniae Ag FIA and BinaxNOW S. Pneumoniae Antigen Card for Detection of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Urinary Antigen.

• We compared the performance of the STANDARD F with that of the BinaxNOW. • The STANDARD F and BinaxNOW showed almost perfect agreement in comparison. • Weakly positive results (COI≤2.0) on the STANDARD F test should be carefully interpreted. We compared the performance of STANDARD F S. pneumoniae Ag FIA with that of BinaxNOW S. pneumoniae Antigen Card using 206 urine samples. The performance of STANDARD F was highly comparable to that of BinaxNOW. STANDARD F assay could be a valuable tool for diagnosis of invasive pneumococcal disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]