Use of reagent strips to diagnose bacterial meningitis [8]

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9047, 1997, Pages 287-288

  Bonev, V ^a   Gledhill, R F ^a  

^a Ga Rankuwa Hospital   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE;

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEST STRIP;

EID: 0031014461     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)64902-1     Document Type: Letter

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3. DL Smalley VR Doyle JK Duckworth Correlation of leucocyte esterase detection and the presence of leucocytes in body fluids Am J Med Technol 48 1982 135 137
4. RA Fishman Cerebrospinal fluid in diseases of the nervous system 2nd ed. 1992 WB Saunders Philadelphia 184 278