Comparison of immulite with vidas for detection of infection in a low-prevalence population of pregnant women in the Netherlands

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 552-555

  Vlaspolder, F ^a   Singer, P ^a   Smit, A ^a   Diepersloot, R J A ^a  

^a Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBELLA; SCREENING TEST; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 0035003273     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.8.3.552-555.2001     Document Type: Article

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