Detection of Rocky Mountain spotted fever antibodies by a latex agglutination test
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 12 (2) , 144-150
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.12.2.144-150.1980
Abstract
A latex test for immunodiagnosis of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, using erythrocyte-sensitizing substance from Rickettsia rickettsii adsorbed to latex particles, was developed. The test was evaluated with 123 single and 118 paired human sera submitted for Rocky Mountain spotted fever testing. This test is simple, sensitive and specific. Its efficiency, relative to the reference microimmunofluorescence test, was 95.1% for single sera and approached 100% for paired sera.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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