A 58-year-old woman with acute lobar pneumonia (left lower lobe consolidation on chest X-ray, fever 39.8°C, pleuritic chest pain) is admitted. Blood cultures are ordered. Which additional investigation is most specific for confirming pneumococcal pneumonia and determining penicillin susceptibility?

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