Evaluation of three immunoassays used for detection of anti-rubella virus immunoglobulin M antibodies

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1104-1108

  Dimech, Wayne ^a,b   Panagiotopoulos, Lena ^a   Marler, Joan ^b   Laven, Nicolas ^b   Leeson, Susan ^b   Dax, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a National Serology Reference Laboratory   (Australia)

^b Dorevitch Pathology ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBELLA VIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROCONVERSION; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CROSS REACTIONS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RUBELLA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 24944536641     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.12.9.1104-1108.2005     Document Type: Article

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