摘要 |
<p>The invention relates to the modification of rapid tests, such as, immunochromatographic tests, presently used to diagnose such diseases as otitis media and pneumococcal pneumonia, to reduce the incidence in children particularly of false positive results attributable to nasopharyngeal colonization of otherwise healthy individuals by the same criteria that are responsible for otitis media and either pneumococcal pneumonia per se or pneumonic diseases clinically indistinguishable thereto.</p> |