Evaluation of two immunodiagnostic tests for early rapid diagnosis of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka: a preliminary study

BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis is often treated based on clinical diagnosis. There is a need for rapid laboratory diagnosis for this condition. The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of two rapid IgM based immunodiagnostic assays with the microscopic agglutination test (MAT), in acu...

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Published in:BMC Infect Dis
Main Authors: Eugene, Egwin J., Handunnetti, Shiroma M., Wickramasinghe, Shalini A., Kalugalage, Thilini L., Rodrigo, Chathuraka, Wickremesinghe, Hasith, Dikmadugoda, Nandana, Somaratne, Pranitha, De Silva, H Janaka, Rajapakse, Senaka
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Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4531393/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26259957
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-1080-z
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