Additional diagnostic yield of adding serology to PCR in diagnosing viral acute respiratory infections in Kenyan patients 5 years of age and older

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 113-114

  Feikin, Daniel R ^a   Njenga, M Kariuki ^a   Bigogo, Godfrey ^a   Aura, Barrack ^a   Gikunju, Stella ^a   Balish, Amanda ^b   Katz, Mark A ^a   Erdman, Dean ^b   Breiman, Robert F ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA B; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOSE SMEAR; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 1; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 2; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872232082     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00325-12     Document Type: Article

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