Notes from the field: False-positive measles test - Maine, February 2012

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 61, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 396-

  Farmer, Ann ^a   Rea, Vicki ^a   Sears, Stephen D ^a   Bernier, Brian ^a   Manning, Susan E ^b  

^a Maine Dept of Health and Human Svcs   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

BLOOD; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PARVOVIRUS INFECTION; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; MAINE; MEASLES; MIDDLE AGED; MORBILLIVIRUS; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS;

EID: 84862123218     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

References (1)

1. Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. False positive laboratory test results for measles-some disease actually parvovirus B19. In: Epidemiology Bulletin. Anchorage, AK: Alaska Department of Health and Social Services; 1994. Available at http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/bulletins/docs/b1994_26.htm. Accessed May 25, 2012.