Quantifying serum antibody in bird fanciers' hypersensitivity pneumonitis

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  McSharry, Charles ^a   Dye, George M ^b   Ismail, Tengku ^c   Anderson, Kenneth ^d   Spiers, Elizabeth M ^b   Boyd, Gavin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c STOBHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d CROSSHOUSE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIRD BREEDER LUNG; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FLUOROMETRY; FOWL; HEN; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PIGEON; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANK SUM TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; STANDARDIZATION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS; AUTOMATION; BIRD FANCIER'S LUNG; BIRDS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELIAC DISEASE; COLUMBIDAE; EGG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FLUOROMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PRECIPITIN TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33747252874     PISSN: 14712466     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-6-16     Document Type: Article

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