External quality assessment for the determination of diphtheria antitoxin in human serum

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1282-1290

  Di Giovine, Paolo ^a   Pinto, Antonella ^a   Ölander, Rose Marie ^b   Sesardic, Dorothea ^c   Stickings, Paul ^c   Berbers, Guy ^d   Neal, Shona ^e   Efstratiou, Androulla ^e   Paberza, Ruta ^f   Dauksiene, Snieguole ^g   Bujko, Marina ^h   Detcheva, Antoaneta ⁱ   Joks, Unna ^j   Levent, Belkis ^k   Von Hunolstein, Christina ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^f State Agency Infectology Center of Latvia   (Latvia)

^g National Public Health Laboratory Centre   (Lithuania)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Slovenia)

ⁱ NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

^j Central Laboratory of Communicable Disease of Health Protection Inspectorate   (Estonia)

^k Virology and NIC of Turkey Refik Saydam Hygiene Institute   (Turkey)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA ANTIBODY; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; TOXIN ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; DIPHTHERIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EUROPE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SERODIAGNOSIS; VERO CELL; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; IMMUNOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; SEROLOGY; SERUM; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN; EUROPE; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SERUM;

EID: 77955291847     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00096-10     Document Type: Article

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