Faulty washers and soiled micropipettors may generate false positive serological results

Clinical and Diagnostic Virology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 173-181

  Parry, John V ^a,c   Mortimer, Philip P ^a   Friderich, Paul ^b   Connell, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross contamination; ELISA washers; False positive results; Micropipettors

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROPIPETTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY;

EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; VIROLOGY;

EID: 0031080587     PISSN: 09280197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-0197(97)00268-7     Document Type: Article

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