Usefulness of Serologic Analysis as a Predictor of the Infecting Serovar in Patients with Severe Leptospirosis
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- 15 February 2003
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- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 36 (4) , 447-452
- https://doi.org/10.1086/346208
Abstract
The diagnosis of leptospirosis is often made using the microscopic agglutination test (MAT), in which live antigens representing >20 serogroups unKeywords
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