Evaluation of the specificity of pneumococcal polysaccharide enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and the effect of serum adsorption based on standard pneumococcal serogroup- or serotype-specific rabbit antisera

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1279-1284

  Slotved, Hans Christian ^a   Guttmann, Christina ^a   Pedersen, Charlotte Demuth ^a   Jacobsen, Jasper Neergaard ^a   Krogfelt, Karen Angeliki ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; ANTISERUM; PNEUMOCOCCUS POLYSACCHARIDE; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST;

ADSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RABBITS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 69849100313     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00143-09     Document Type: Article

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