Sensitivity and specificity of the borreliacidal-antibody test during early Lyme disease: A 'gold standard'?

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 399-402

  Callister, Steven M ^a   Jobe, Dean A ^a   Schell, Ronald F ^b,c   Pavia, Charles S ^d,e   Lovrich, Steven D ^a  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYME DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0029862204     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.3.4.399-402.1996     Document Type: Article

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