Capillary and venous leukocyte adhesiveness/aggregation to differentiate between viral and bacterial infection

Infection

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 365-372

  Rotstein, R ^a   Kassirer, M ^a   Zeltser, D ^a   Maharshak, N ^a   Mardi, T ^a   Avitzour, D ^c   Shapira, I ^a   Justo, D ^a   Arber, N ^b   Berliner, S ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Timotim Technologies   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LEUKOCYTE AGGREGATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CAPILLARIES; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VEINS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0036450275     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-002-2169-z     Document Type: Article

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