Bicentric evaluation of six anti-toxoplasma immunoglobulin G (IgG) automated immunoassays and comparison to the Toxo II IgG Western blot

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1322-1326

  Maudry, Arnaud ^a   Chene, Gautier ^a   Chatelain, Rémi ^a   Patural, Hugues ^a   Bellete, Bahrie ^a   Tisseur, Bernard ^b   Hafid, Jamal ^a,c   Raberin, Hélène ^a   Beretta, Sophie ^b   Sung, Roger Tran Manh ^a,d   Belot, Georges ^b   Flori, Pierre ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b Laboratoire d'Analyses Médicales Synerbio   (France)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES GUÉLIZ   (Morocco)

^d GIMAP   (France)

^e HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2 ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; TOXOPLASMA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 69749112235     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00128-09     Document Type: Article

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