Accuracy of a dual path platform (DPP) assay for the rapid point-of-care diagnosis of human leptospirosis.

• Hlavní autoři: Scott A Nabity (Autor), Guilherme S Ribeiro (Autor), Carolina Lessa Aquino (Autor), Daniele Takahashi (Autor), Alcinéia Oliveira Damião (Autor), André H O Gonçalves (Autor), Demócrito B Miranda-Filho (Autor), Rena Greenwald (Autor), Javan Esfandiari (Autor), Konstantin P Lyashchenko (Autor), Mitermayer G Reis (Autor), Marco A Medeiros (Autor), Albert I Ko (Autor)
• Médium: Kniha
• Vydáno: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Témata: article
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BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of leptospirosis by the gold standard serologic assay, the microscopic agglutination test (MAT), requires paired sera and is not widely available. We developed a rapid assay using immunodominant Leptospira immunoglobulin-like (Lig) proteins in a Dual Path Platform (DPP). This st...