Clinical evaluation of ProSpecT® ELISA for detection of shigatoxins from stools, stool cultures, and verotoxinogenic strains of Escherichia coli

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 45, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 13-21

  Gerritzen, Andreas ^a  

^a Jt Practice of Laboratory Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; EHEC; Enzyme immunoassay; Shigatoxins

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN; VEROTOXIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DEVICE; ENTERITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032989418     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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