Evaluation of the Determine Rapid Syphilis TP Assay Using Sera

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 98-101

  Diaz, Theresa ^a,b,c   Almeida, Maria De Gloria Bonecini ^b   Georg, Ingebourg ^b   Maia, Suely De Carvalho ^b   Valls De Souza, Rogerio ^b   Markowitz, Lauri E ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRAZIL; CARDIOLIPINS; CHOLESTEROL; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0347758626     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.11.1.98-101.2004     Document Type: Article

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