The Challenges and Strategies for Laboratory Diagnosis of Measles in an International Setting
Open Access
- 15 May 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 187 (s1), S283-S290
- https://doi.org/10.1086/368040
Abstract
Serum‐based measles‐specific IgM EIAs are the recommended laboratory assays for diagnosis of acute measles infections and appear to be sufficient forKeywords
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