Assessment of three commercially available serologic assays for detection of antibodies to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and identification of active tuberculosis

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1644-1649

  Anderson, Brian L ^a   Welch, Ryan J ^a   Litwin, Christine M ^a,b  

^a ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 55849099590     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00271-08     Document Type: Article

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