Clinical utility of ANA measured by ELISA compared with ANA measured by immunofluorescence

Rheumatology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1013-1014

  Maguire, Gerald A ^a   Ginawi, Amel ^b   Lee, Jeffrey ^b   Lim, A Y N ^b   Wood, Graham ^a   Houghton, Sally ^a   Kumararatne, Dinakantha S ^a   Gaston, Hill J S ^b  

^a Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; AGED; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70149112566     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kep137     Document Type: Letter

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