Serological differentiation of murine typhus and epidemic typhus using cross-adsorption and Western blotting

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 612-616

  La Scola, Bernard ^a   Rydkina, Lena ^a   Ndihokubwayo, Jean Bosco ^a   Vene, Sirkka ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CROSS REACTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SERODIAGNOSIS; TYPHUS;

ANIMALS; CROSS REACTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MICE; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

EID: 0033927796     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.7.4.612-616.2000     Document Type: Article

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