Evaluation of the LIAISON chemiluminescence immunoassay for diagnosis of syphilis

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 710-713

  Knight, Carrie S ^a   Crum, Mary A ^a   Hardy, Robert W ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAGIN TEST; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; PREGNANCY; REAGINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 34547108085     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00068-07     Document Type: Article

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