Diagnosis ofMycoplasma pneumoniae infection by microparticle aggluination and antibody-capture enzyme-immunoassay
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 9 (3) , 217-220
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01963842
Abstract
The performance of two new commercial assays for the serological diagnosis ofMycoplasma pneumoniae infection (microparticle agglutination and antibody-capture enzyme-immunoassay) was studied using a panel of 169 serum samples from patients withMycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia and a control group. Both assays were shown to be sensitive and specific for diagnosis. The performance of the capture immunoassay, however, decreased in older patients, probably due to its inability to detect cases of reinfection without IgM antibody response.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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