Comparison of the analytic sensitivities of a recombinant immunoblot assay and the radioimmune precipitation assay for the detection of antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi in patients with Chagas disease

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 402-405

  Shah, Dinesh O ^a   Chang, Chi Deu ^a   Cheng, Kevin Y ^a   Salbilla, Vince A ^a   Adya, Neeraj ^a   Marchlewicz, Benedict A ^a   Kirchhoff, Louis V ^b,c  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic sensitivity; Chagas disease; Immunoblot assay; Radioimmune precipitation assay; RIPA; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOPRECIPITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PARASITOLOGY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

EID: 77954718391     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.03.013     Document Type: Article

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