External quality assessment of enterovirus detection and typing

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 217-223

  Van Loon, A M ^a   Cleator, G C ^b   Ras, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHO VIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; FIBROBLAST; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TYPING;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; EUROPE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0033050403     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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