Performance of a dot blot immunoassay for the rapid diagnosis of scrub typhus in a longitudinal case series

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 800-802

  Watt, George ^a   Strickman, Daniel ^b   Kantipong, Pacharee ^b   Jongsakul, Krisada ^b   Paxton, Helene ^b  

^a Dept of Medicine

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SCRUB TYPHUS; SERODIAGNOSIS; THAILAND;

EID: 0031910058     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517813     Document Type: Article

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