Suitability of Frozen Serum Stored in Gel Separator Primary Sampling Tubes for Serological Testing

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 219-221

  Rosa Fraile, Manuel ^a   Sampedro, Antonio ^a   Rodríguez Granger, Javier ^a   Camacho, Enrique ^a   Manrique, Ester ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FREEZING; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBELLA VIRUS; SAMPLING; SEROLOGY; SERUM; STORAGE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FREEZING; GELS; HUMANS;

EID: 0346497830     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.11.1.219-221.2004     Document Type: Article

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