Industry News (Strep. pneumoniae)

FDA Approves 15-Minute Pneumonia Test

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 13th, 1999

Doctors undecided about whether a wheezing patient needs antibiotics to treat pneumonia are about to get a simple, 15-minute test to help their diagnosis.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a pneumonia test from Binax Inc., Portland, Maine. It uses a patient's urine to detect a bacterium called Streptococcus pneumoniae, which is estimated to cause 500,000 cases of pneumonia a year.

The test should help doctors decide more quickly if a patient's pneumonia is caused by that bacterium, and thus what treatment is needed.

That's a crucial decision for today's doctors because of a growing army of "supergerms" -...

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