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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Egile Nagusiak: Jensenius, Mogens, Fournier, Pierre-Edouard, Vene, Sirkka, Ringertz, Signe Holta, Myrvang, Bjørn, Raoult, Didier
Formatua: Artigo
Hizkuntza:Inglês
Argitaratua: American Society for Microbiology 2004
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Microbial Immunology
Sarrera elektronikoa: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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