Detection of Histoplasma antigen by a quantitative enzyme immunoassay

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1587-1591

  Connolly, Patricia A ^a   Durkin, Michelle M ^a   LeMonte, Ann M ^a   Hackett, Emily J ^a   Wheat, L Joseph ^a  

^a MIRAVISTA DIAGNOSTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS REACTIONS; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LINEAR MODELS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38049089373     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00071-07     Document Type: Article

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