Early diagnosis of scrub typhus with a rapid flow assay using recombinant major outer membrane protein antigen (r56) of Orientia tsutsugamushi

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 409-414

  Ching, W M ^a   Rowland, D ^a   Zhang, Z ^a   Bourgeois, A L ^a   Kelly, D ^a   Dasch, G A ^a   Devine, P L ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASSAY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC FLOW ASSAY; SCRUB TYPHUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; REAGENT STRIPS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035102693     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.8.2.409-414.2001     Document Type: Article

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