An immunofluorescent method for detecting antibodies against viridans streptococci in Streptococcus viridans endocarditis.
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An immunofluorescent method for detecting antibodies against viridans streptococci in Streptococcus viridans endocarditis.
Serum was collected one to three months after the onset of symptoms from eight endocarditis cases and from another endocarditis case about three weeks after the onset of symptoms (case 8 in Table). Endocarditis was proven in each case clinically and by numerous sets of blood -cultures that yielded growth of viridans streptococci. Three positive standard reference sera, obtained from patients wi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.31.3.292