CORR Insights®: The Alpha-defensin Test for Periprosthetic Joint Infection Outperforms the Leukocyte Esterase Test Strip

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 473, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 204-205

  Sheehan, Eoin ^a  

^a Tullamore General Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DEFENSIN; CARBOXYLESTERASE; LEUKOCYTE ESTERASE; TEST STRIP;

ARTHROPLASTY; COLORIMETRY; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TEST STRIP;

ALPHA-DEFENSINS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; COLORIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REAGENT STRIPS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 84925285117     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-014-3794-4     Document Type: Article

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