A latex bead-based flow cytometric immunoassay capable of simultaneous typing of multiple pneumococcal serotypes (multibead assay)

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 486-489

  Park, M K ^a   Briles, D E ^b   Nahm, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; LATEX; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOASSAY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; LATEX; MASS SCREENING; MICROSPHERES; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RABBITS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0034026577     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.7.3.486-489.2000     Document Type: Article

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