An easy method for detection of rheumatic antigen(s) in rheumatic fever/rheumatic heart disease patients by dot-ELISA

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 807-810

  Kumar, D ^a,c   Kaur, S ^b   Grover, A ^b   Singal, P K ^a   Ganguly, N K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dot ELISA; Monoclonal antibody; Rheumatic fever

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0031856151     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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