Defibrination of blood plasma for use in serological tests for syphilis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1376-1378

  Castro, Arnold R ^a   Kikkert, Susan E ^a   Fears, Martha B ^a   Pope, Victoria ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; FIBRINOGEN; KAOLIN; THROMBIN;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAGIN TEST; SEROLOGY; SERUM; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; UNITED STATES;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0036844482     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.6.1376-1378.2002     Document Type: Article

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