Development of a novel ELISA for serodiagnosis of Leptospirosis and additional detection of pathogenic Leptospira by polymerase chain reaction for veterinary routine diagnostics

Revista Cubana de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-50

  Theodoridis, Dimitrios ^a   Böhmer, Jan ^a   Homuth, Matthias ^a   Strutzberg Minder, Katrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; ELISA; Leptospira; Leptospirosis; PCR

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750838175     PISSN: 03750760     EISSN: 03750760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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