Evaluation of in-house and commercial immunoassays for the sero-diagnosis of brucellosis in a non-endemic low prevalence population

Journal of Infection

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 108-113

  Sharma, R ^a   Chisnall, C ^a   Cooke, R P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brucellacapt; Brucellosis; Sero diagnosis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CALCULATION; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SERODIAGNOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TESTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PREVALENCE; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 38749117139     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2007.10.010     Document Type: Article

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