Detection of Coccidioides antigenemia following dissociation of immune complexes

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1453-1456

  Durkin, Michelle ^a,b   Estok, Lois ^c   Hospenthal, Duane ^d   Crum Cianflone, Nancy ^e   Swartzentruber, Samantha ^a,b   Hackett, Emily ^a,b   Wheat, L Joseph ^a,b  

^a MIRAVISTA DIAGNOSTICS   (United States)

^b MiraBella Technologies   (United States)

^c El Rio Special Immunology Associates   (United States)

^d BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCCIDIOIDES ANTIGEN; EDETIC ACID; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CROSS REACTIONS; EDETIC ACID; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349681088     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00227-09     Document Type: Article

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