Detection of Francisella tularensis in biological specimens using a capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, an immunochromatographic handheld assay, and a PCR

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 86-90

  Grunow, Roland ^a   Splettstoesser, Wolf ^a   McDonald, Sahra ^b   Otterbein, Christian ^a   O'Brien, Tom ^c   Morgan, Cecilia ^c   Aldrich, Jennifer ^c   Hofer, Erwin ^d   Finke, Ernst Jürgen ^a   Meyer, Hermann ^a  

^a Sanitatsakademie der Bundeswehr   (Germany)

^b Porton Down   (United Kingdom)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Fed Inst Contr Infect Dis A   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TULAREMIA;

BRUCELLA; BURKHOLDERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA PHILOMIRAGIA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; YERSINIA;

EID: 20244370496     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.7.1.86-90.2000     Document Type: Article

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