An overview of rapid immunoassays

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-46

  Hesterberg, Lyndal K ^a   Crosby, Mark A ^a  

^a BioStar Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; BIOSENSOR; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; IMMUNOASSAY; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0030049302     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/labmed/27.1.41     Document Type: Review

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