Is the inherent imprecision of manual leukocyte differential counts acceptable for quantitative purposes?

Veterinary Clinical Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 268-270

  Kjelgaard Hansen, Mads ^a   Jensen, Asger Lundorff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METHODOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750714440     PISSN: 02756382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-165X.2006.tb00128.x     Document Type: Letter

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