The clinical usefulness of a Puumalavirus recombinant nucleocapsid protein based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in the diagnosis of nephropathia epidemica as compared with an immunofluorescence assay

Clinical and Diagnostic Virology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-26

  Elgh, Fredrik ^a   Linderholm, Mats ^a   Wadell, Göran ^a   Juto, Per ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Hantavirus; Immunofluorescence assay; Nephropathia epidemica; Puumala virus; Recombinant protein

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUUMALA VIRUS; SEROLOGY; SWEDEN;

HANTAVIRUS; NEPHROPATHIA; NEPHROPATHIA EPIDEMICA; PUUMALA VIRUS;

EID: 0030175886     PISSN: 09280197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0928-0197(96)00208-5     Document Type: Article

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