Research Article

False-positive result with BinaxNOW Legionella Antigen immunochromatographic (ICT) assay: response to Helbig et al. (2001)

Journal of Medical Microbiology 2004; 53(2):173 · https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.05000-0

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Abstract


As in the paper by Helbig et al. (2001), we found a very weakly positive band with the BinaxNOW Legionella Antigen immunochromatographic (ICT) assay (Binax) in a urine sample from a patient who had an infection caused by a micro-organism other than Legionella pneumophila.