Improvement of the slide hemagglutination test for rapid Chagas' disease screening in epidemiological surveys

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 623-628

  Nagasse Sugahara, T K ^a   Hoshino Shimizu, S ^a   Pagliarini, R C ^b   Celeste, B J ^b  

^a INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; Rapid serologic screening; Slide hemagglutination test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CHAGAS DISEASE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 0030133362     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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