Development of a new point-of-care testing system for measuring white blood cell and C-reactive protein levels in whole blood samples

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 433, Issue , 2014, Pages 145-149

  Kotani, Kazuhiko ^a   Minami, Takaomi ^a   Abe, Toshiaki ^b   Sato, Junji ^b   Taniguchi, Nobuyuki ^a   Yamada, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EIKEN CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

CRP; Granulocyte esterase; Immunochromatographic assay; Inflammation; Leukocyte; POCT; WBC

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ESTERASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 84897104724     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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