Validation of immune-complex enzyme immunoassays for diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia among adults in Kenya.
The efficacy of pneumococcal vaccines in protecting against pneumococcal pneumonia can feasibly be measured only with a diagnostic technique that has a high specificity (0.98 to 1.00) and a sensitivity greatly exceeding that of blood cultures (>0.2 to 0.3). In this context immune-complex enzy...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2000
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