Usefulness of serologic analysis as a predictor of the infecting serovar in patients with severe leptospirosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 447-452

  Levett, Paul N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BARBADOS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA BIFLEXA; LEPTOSPIRA BORGPETERSENII; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIRA KIRSCHNERI; LEPTOSPIRA NOGUCHII; LEPTOSPIROSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROTYPE; SERUM;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0037442634     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/346208     Document Type: Article

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