Clinical application of a dot blot test for diagnosis of enteric fever due to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi in patients with typhoid fever from Colombia and Peru

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 312-313

  Cardona Castro, Nora ^a   Gotuzzo, Eduardo ^b   Rodriguez, Monica ^a   Guerra, Humberto ^b  

^a Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical   (Colombia)

^b HOSPITAL NACIONAL CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; TYPHOID FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COLOMBIA; FEVER; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PERU; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0034091775     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.7.2.312-313.2000     Document Type: Article

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