Elimination of false-positive results in a Luminex assay for pneumococcal antibodies

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 185-189

  Pickering, Jerry W ^a   Larson, Matthew T ^a   Martins, Thomas B ^a   Copple, Susan S ^b   Hill, Harry R ^a,c  

^a ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b ARUP LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SERUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CATTLE; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 74549126192     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00329-09     Document Type: Article

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