The evaluation of a user-friendly lateral flow assay for the serodiagnosis of human brucellosis in Kazakhstan

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-20

  Mizanbayeva, Sulushash ^a   Smits, Henk L ^b   Zhalilova, Katya ^a   Abdoel, Theresia H ^b   Kozakov, Stanislaw ^a   Ospanov, Kenes S ^a   Elzer, Philip H ^c   Douglas, James T ^d  

^a Republican Sanitary Station and Epidemiological Station   (Kazakhstan)

^b ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute; Brucellosis; Chronic; Culture; Kazakhstan; Serodiagnosis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; ROSE BENGAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAZAKHSTAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; KAZAKHSTAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROLOGIC TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68349096244     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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