Screening of several drugs of abuse in Italian workplace drug testing: Performance comparisons of on-site screening tests and a fluorescence polarization immunoassay-based device

Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 83, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 8566-8574

  Basilicata, Pascale ^a   Pieri, Maria ^a   Settembre, Veronica ^a   Galdiero, Alessandra ^a   Della Casa, Elvira ^a   Acampora, Antonio ^a   Miraglia, Nadia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 ,4-METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; BUPRENORPHINE; CANNABINOIDS; DRUG TESTING; DRUG TESTS; DRUGS OF ABUSE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY; ON-SITE TESTS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; RAPID SCREENING; SCREENING TESTS; THIRD PARTIES; TOXICOLOGICAL TESTS;

HEALTH RISKS; SAFETY TESTING;

DRUG PRODUCTS;

STREET DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; ITALY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; URINE; WORKPLACE;

FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; ITALY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 81255146418     PISSN: 00032700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ac201905q     Document Type: Article

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