A point-of-care test for measles diagnosis: detection of measles-specific IgM antibodies and viral nucleic acid
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of a newly developed point-of-care test (POCT) for the detection of measles-specific IgM antibodies in serum and oral fluid specimens and to assess if measles virus nucleic acid could be recovered from used POCT strips. METHODS: The POCT was used to test 170 se...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2011-09-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862011000900014&lng=en&tlng=en |