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Jesse Papenburg1, Mariana Baz, Marie-Ève Hamelin, Chantal Rhéaume, Julie Carbonneau, Manale Ouakki, Isabelle Rouleau, Gaston De Serres, Guy Boivin.
Abstract
Serology improves influenza diagnosis by capturing cases missed by reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR). We prospectively evaluated microneutralization and hemagglutination inhibition assays for 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus diagnosis among 24 RT-PCR-confirmed cases and 98 household contacts. Compared to hemagglutination inhibition, microneutralization demonstrated a higher level of concordance with RT-PCR (kappa = 0.69 versus kappa = 0.60) and greater sensitivity (83% versus 71%; P = 0.016).Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21228145 PMCID: PMC3067392 DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00449-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Vaccine Immunol ISSN: 1556-679X