Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) with Mycobacterial Crude Antigens for the Sero-Epidemiological Diagnosis of Active Tuberculosis

International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 417-427

  Escobar Gutierrez, Alejandro ^a   Amezcua Chavarria, Maria Eugenia ^a   Pasten Sanchez, Sergio ^a   Ramirez Casanova, Ernestine ^b   Cazares, Jose Victor ^a   Granados, Guadalupe ^a   Loo Mendez, Elia ^a   Cicero, Raul ^b  

^a Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico y Referencia Epidemiologicos   (Mexico)

^b SECRETARÍA DE SALUD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FAMILY; HUMANS; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0030453151     PISSN: 0148916X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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