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Evaluation of two immunodiagnostic tests for early rapid diagnosis of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka: a preliminary study

BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis is often treated based on clinical diagnosis. There is a need for rapid laboratory diagnosis for this condition. The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of two rapid IgM based immunodiagnostic assays with the microscopic agglutination test (MAT), in acu...

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Autores principales:	Eugene, Egwin J., Handunnetti, Shiroma M., Wickramasinghe, Shalini A., Kalugalage, Thilini L., Rodrigo, Chathuraka, Wickremesinghe, Hasith, Dikmadugoda, Nandana, Somaratne, Pranitha, De Silva, H Janaka, Rajapakse, Senaka
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2015
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4531393/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26259957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-1080-z

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