A Leptospirosis Workup by Evaluation of Efficiency of Two Rapid Immunodiagnostic Tests in Comparison with Microscopic Agglutination Test
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چکیده
Microscopic Agglutination Test is the standard test employed in centres for confirming the cause of the disease (Levett, 2001; WHO, 2003). This test requires a panel of locally prevalent live leptospires which has to be maintained for routine procedures. The procedure is very laborious, time consuming and may cause cross infections in laboratories (WHO, 2003; Cumberland, 1999), following which many peripheral laboratories employ Immuno-chromatography based tests, card tests, spot tests and various ELISA kits for rapid diagnosis of acute leptospirosis (Adler International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 1 (2017) pp. 563-568 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com
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