Multicenter comparative evaluation of two rapid immunoassay methods for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis antigen in endocervical specimens

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 663-667

  Steingrímsson, Ólafur ^a,e   Pawlak, Catherine ^b   Van Der Pol, Barbara ^c   Turner, Buffy P ^d   Ólafsson, Jón Hjaltalín ^a   Dolphin, Lauren ^b   Williams, James E ^c   Peyton, Cynthia E ^d   Klepper, Robert E ^b   Jones, Robert B ^c   Anderson, Garland D ^d   Rashti, Neda ^b   Weissfeld, Alice S ^d   Pronovost, Allan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b Quidel Corporation   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^e Department of Microbiology ^*  (Iceland)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Immunoassay; Sexually transmitted disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE ENDOCERVIX;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 0031466117     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1997.tb00475.x     Document Type: Article

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