Development of a Specific and Sensitive Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay as an In Vitro Diagnostic Tool for Detection of Bartonella henselae Antibodies in Human Serum-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Development of a Specific and Sensitive Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay as an In Vitro Diagnostic Tool for Detection of Bartonella henselae Antibodies in Human Serum

Published:2018-12 Issue:12 Volume:56 Page:
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Jost Markus¹²,Latz Andreas³,Ballhorn Wibke¹²,Kempf Volkhard A. J.¹²

Affiliation:

1. University Hospital, Goethe-University, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2. German National Consiliary Laboratory for Bartonella Infections, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

3. NovaTec Immundiagnostica GmbH, Dietzenbach, Germany

Abstract

Bartonella henselae causes cat scratch disease and several other clinical entities. Infections with B. henselae are frequently occurring; however, the infection is only rarely diagnosed, mainly due to a lack of knowledge in the medical community.

Funder

State of Hesse, Germany LOEWE

Robert Koch Institute, Germany

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JCM.01329-18

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