Digital immunofluorescence enables automated detection of antinuclear antibody endpoint titers avoiding serial dilution

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Roggenbuck, Dirk ^a   Hiemann, Rico ^a   Schierack, Peter ^a   Reinhold, Dirk ^b   Conrad, Karsten ^c  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antinuclear antibody; Digital immunofluorescence; Endpoint titer

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY;

ALGORITHM; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIGITAL IMAGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; LETTER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD;

ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS;

EID: 84896337553     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2013-0543     Document Type: Letter

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