A study on a possibility of predicting early relapse in leprosy using a ND-O-BSA based ELISA

International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-8

  Wu, Qinxue ^a   Yin, Yueping ^a   Zhang, Liangfen ^a   Chen, Xiaohong ^c   Yu, Yanhau ^a   Li, Zhicheng ^b   Yu, Hua ^b   Lu, Chengzhi ^c   Feng, Suying ^a   Li, Xiaojie ^a   Huo, Wei ^a   Ye, Ganyun ^c  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b Institute of Prevention and Treatment for Endemic Disease   (China)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; DAPSONE; DISACCHARIDE; EPITOPE;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; RELAPSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SERODIAGNOSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; DISACCHARIDES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GLYCOLIPIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE;

EID: 0036315242     PISSN: 0148916X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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