An evaluation of two commercially available ELISAs and one in-house reference laboratory ELISA for the determination of human anti-rabies virus antibodies

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 806-810

  Welch, Ryan J ^a   Anderson, Brian L ^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

ANTIBODY; RABIES VIRUS ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION TEST; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID FLUORESCENT FOCUS INHIBITION TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; RABIES VIRUS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VACCINATION; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 66449113689     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.006064-0     Document Type: Article

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