Use of a multiplexed immunoassay for detection of Serotypespecific streptococcus pneumoniae antigen in pleural fluid and cerebrospinal fluid specimens

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1879-1881

  Sheppard, Carmen L ^a   Guiver, Malcolm ^a   Hartley, John ^b   Harrison, Timothy G ^a   George, Robert C ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOASSAY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PLEURA FLUID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 81355163729     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.034975-0     Document Type: Letter

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