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Clinically helpful rickettsial disease diagnostic IgG titers in relation to duration of illness in an endemic setting in Sri Lanka
BACKGROUND: Although an initial IFA-IgG titer greater or equal to 1/64 or 1/128 is considered positive in presumptive diagnosis, in clinical practice in an endemic setting for rickettsioses in Sri Lanka, some patients with IFA-IgG titer of 1/128 for either spotted fever group (SFG) or scrub typhus (...
Autores principales: | Premaratna, Ranjan, Weerasinghe, Sanjaya, Ranaweera, Amanda, Chandrasena, TGA Nilmini, Bandara, Narasinghe W, Dasch, Gregory A, de Silva, H Janaka |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536648/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23198969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-662 |
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