Evaluation of a western blot test in an outbreak of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 20-23

  Pizzini, Claudia V ^a,b   Zancopé Oliveira, Rosely M ^a,b,c   Reiss, Errol ^c   Hajjeh, Rana ^c   Kaufman, Leo ^c   Peralta, José Mauro ^b  

^a Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITIN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPITOPE MAPPING; GLYCOSYLATION; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNODIFFUSION; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0344142390     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.6.1.20-23.1999     Document Type: Article

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