Development of a polyclonal competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of antibodies to Ehrlichia ruminantium

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 910-916

  Sumption, Keith J ^a,b   Paxton, Edith A ^a,c   Bell Sakyi, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^c MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; BIOTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANAPLASMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOAT; HEARTWATER DISEASE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; POLYCLONAL COMPETITIVE ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CROSS REACTIONS; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEARTWATER DISEASE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0141522460     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.10.5.910-916.2003     Document Type: Article

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