Detection of rubella immunoglobulin M from dried venous blood spots using a commercial enzyme immunoassay

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-111

  Karapanagiotidis, Theo ^a   Riddell, Michaela ^b,c   Kelly, Heath ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dried venous blood; Immunoglobulin M; Rubella

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CONTROL; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; INCUBATION TIME; MEASLES; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBELLA; RUBELLA VIRUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENOUS BLOOD;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RUBELLA; RUBELLA VIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VEINS;

EID: 26444526801     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2005.06.017     Document Type: Article

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