Serological diagnosis of Indian visceral leishmaniasis: direct agglutination test versus rK39 strip test
- 1 June 2006
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 100 (6) , 533-537
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.08.018
Abstract
Summary. We evaluated the direct agglutination test (DAT), using freeze-dried (FD) and aqueous (AQ) antigen, and the rK39 immunochromatographic strip test in tKeywords
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