Comparison of Immunofluorescence, Western Blotting, and Cross-Adsorption Assays for Diagnosis of African Tick Bite Fever

In testing paired serum samples from 40 consecutive cases of African tick bite fever, we detected diagnostic antibodies against spotted fever group rickettsiae in 45% of the patients by immunofluorescence assay (IFA) and in 100% of the patients by Western blotting (WB) (P < 0.01). A specific diag...

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Autors principals: Jensenius, Mogens, Fournier, Pierre-Edouard, Vene, Sirkka, Ringertz, Signe Holta, Myrvang, Bjørn, Raoult, Didier
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: American Society for Microbiology 2004
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Microbial Immunology
Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC440600/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15242958
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/CDLI.11.4.786-788.2004
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