Can the Brucellacapt® test be substituted for the Coombs test in the diagnosis of human brucellosis?;¿Puede sustituir la prueba de Brucellacapt® a la prueba de Coombs en el diagnóstico de la brucelosis humana?

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 202-205

  Serra, Jordi ^a   Velasco, Julián ^b   Godoy, Pere ^c   Mendoza, Joaquín ^b  

^a Hospital Comarcal del Pallars   (Spain)

^b VIRCELL S L   (Spain)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Brucellacapt test; Brucellosis; Coombs test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SEROLOGY;

BRUCELLOSIS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 0035351123     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0213-005x(01)72613-4     Document Type: Article

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