Serological diagnosis of avian influenza in poultry: Is the haemagglutination inhibition test really the 'gold standard'?

Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 257-264

  Comin, Arianna ^a   Toft, Nils ^b   Stegeman, Arjan ^c   Klinkenberg, Don ^c   Marangon, Stefano ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Avian influenza; Diagnostic test evaluation; Haemagglutination inhibition test; Latent class analysis; Serological tests

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BAYES THEOREM; CHICKEN; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMAGGLUTINATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; TURKEY (BIRD);

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHICKENS; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; POULTRY DISEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TURKEYS;

EID: 84876481872     PISSN: 17502640     EISSN: 17502659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2012.00391.x     Document Type: Article

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