Hantavirus infection in Brazil: development and evaluation of an enzyme immunoassay and immunoblotting based on N recombinant protein

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-97

  Raboni, Sonia Mara ^a,b   Levis, Silvana ^c   Rosa, Elizabeth Salbé T ^d   Bisordi, Ivani ^e   Delfraro, Adriana ^f   Lemos, Elba ^g   Correia, Dione C ^h   Duarte dos Santos, Claudia Nunes ^a  

^a Instituto de Biologia Molecular do Parana   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas Dr Julio I Maiztegui   (Argentina)

^d INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^g INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^h Central Laboratory of Public Health   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Enzyme immunoassay; Hantavirus; HPS; Immunoblotting; Recombinant N antigen

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAZIL; CONVALESCENCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HANTAVIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BRAZIL; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34248189283     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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