Performance of HTJLV-1 screening assays in Brazil

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 283, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 340-345

  Beck, Andreas ^a,d   Carlos Pereira Lima, Maria Da Conceição ^a   Castro, Mônica C ^a   Drummond, Deise Xavier ^a   Aguiar Oliveira, Maria Da Lourdes ^a   Oelemann, Walter ^b   Pauli, Georg ^c   Van Tilburg Bernardes, Yara S M ^a  

^a Inst Nac Controle Qualidade S   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BRAZIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

BLOOD DONORS; BRAZIL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0030111279     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0934-8840(96)80069-7     Document Type: Article

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