caa a22 4500 477069940 CHVBK 20180405111422.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01691965 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01691965 Comparison of immunofluorescence with enzyme immunoassay for detection of Q fever [Elektronische Daten] [S. D'Harcourt, A. Soto, V. Burgos, D. Calero, R. Martínez-Zapico] To evaluate enzyme immunoassay (EIA) as an alternative to indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) to screen for Q fever in humans, 157 serum samples from patients suspected of having the disease were tested for immunoglobulin G antibodies toCoxiella burnetii. The agreement between the tests and the sensitivity of EIA were excellent (96.8% and 98.4%, respectively) when an IFAtiter of > 1/160 was considered positive. All serum samples with a titer of > 1/320 in the IFA were also positive by the EIA. The EIA seems to be an acceptable alternative to IFA for screening for Q fever. MMV Medizin Verlag GmbH, 1996 D'Harcourt S. Microbiology Department, La Paz Universitary Hospital, Paseo de la Castellana, 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain aut Soto A. Microbiology Department, La Paz Universitary Hospital, Paseo de la Castellana, 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain aut Burgos V. Microbiology Department, La Paz Universitary Hospital, Paseo de la Castellana, 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain aut Calero D. Microbiology Department, La Paz Universitary Hospital, Paseo de la Castellana, 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain aut Martínez-Zapico R. Microbiology Department, La Paz Universitary Hospital, Paseo de la Castellana, 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain aut European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Springer-Verlag 15/9(1996-09-01), 749-752 0934-9723 15:9<749 1996 15 10096 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01691965 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01691965 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- D'Harcourt S. Microbiology Department, La Paz Universitary Hospital, Paseo de la Castellana, 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Soto A. Microbiology Department, La Paz Universitary Hospital, Paseo de la Castellana, 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Burgos V. Microbiology Department, La Paz Universitary Hospital, Paseo de la Castellana, 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Calero D. Microbiology Department, La Paz Universitary Hospital, Paseo de la Castellana, 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Martínez-Zapico R. Microbiology Department, La Paz Universitary Hospital, Paseo de la Castellana, 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Springer-Verlag 15/9(1996-09-01), 749-752 0934-9723 15:9<749 1996 15 10096 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer