Specificity of low anti-toxoplasma IgG titers with IMx and AxSYM Toxo IgG assays

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-67

  Cimon, Bernard ^a   Marty, Pierre ^b   Morin, Odile ^c   Bessières, Marie Hélène ^d   Marx Chemla, Cathy ^e   Gay Andrieu, Françoise ^f   Thulliez, Philippe ^g  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NICE   (France)

^c NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f CROIX ROUSSE HOSPITAL   (France)

^g Institut de Puericulture   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 0032437429     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(98)00060-1     Document Type: Article

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