Effect of sexually transmitted disease (STD) coinfections on performance of three commercially available immunosorbent assays used for detection of herpes simplex virus type 2-specific antibody in men attending Baltimore, Maryland, STD clinics

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1545-1549

  Summerton, Jean ^a   Riedesel, Melissa ^b   Laeyendecker, Oliver ^a,b   Gaydos, Charlotte ^a   Maldeis, Nancy E ^c   Hardick, Andrew ^a   Morrow, Rhoda Ashley ^d   Quinn, Thomas C ^a,b,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEALTH CENTER; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BALTIMORE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 38049072629     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00120-07     Document Type: Article

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