Naturally occurring anti-Escherichia coli protein antibodies in the sera of healthy humans cause analytical interference in a recombinant nucleocapsid protein-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for serodiagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-101

  Chi, Wai Yip ^a   Chung, Chau Hon ^a   Zeng, Fanya ^a   Chow, Ken Y C ^a   Kwok, Hung Chan ^a   Peiris, Joseph S M ^a   Leung, Frederick C C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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Indexed keywords

NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 51149121925     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00136-06     Document Type: Article

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