Diagnosis of Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia by quantitative enzyme linked immunosorbent assay of C-polysaccharide antigen.

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Published in J Clin Pathol on August 01, 1994

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S H Gillespie1, M D Smith, A Dickens, J G Raynes, K P McAdam

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1: Division of Communicable Diseases, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London.

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