Effect of Demographics and Time to Sample Processing on the qPCR Detection of Pathogenic <i>Leptospira</i> spp. from Human Samples in the National Reference Laboratory for Leptospirosis, Brazil
Leptospirosis diagnosis by MAT requires antibody levels that are typically present only after the first week of symptoms, many days after infection. To improve testing capacity and to develop a fast and reliable solution for the diagnosis of this disease in the first few days after clinical manifest...
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MDPI AG
2023-02-01
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Series: | Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/8/3/151 |