Evaluation of seven commercially available ELISA kits for serodiagnosis of acute toxoplasmosis

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 105, Issue MAR., 1997, Pages 103-107

  Singh, Sarman ^a,b   Singh, Niti ^a   Dwivedi, S N ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Diagnostic kits; Direct agglutination tests; IgG; IgM; India; Serodiagnosis; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; INDIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 0030996625     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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