Simultaneous automated screening and confirmatory testing for vasculitis-specific ANCA.

Simultaneous automated screening and confirmatory testing for vasculitis-specific ANCA.

Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) are the serological hallmark of small vessel vasculitis, so called ANCA-associated vasculitis. The international consensus requires testing by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) on human ethanol-fixed neutrophils (ethN) as screening followed by confirmati...

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Main Authors: Mandy Sowa, Kai Grossmann, Ilka Knütter, Rico Hiemann, Nadja Röber, Ursula Anderer, Elena Csernok, Dimitrios P Bogdanos, Maria Orietta Borghi, Pier Luigi Meroni, Peter Schierack, Dirk Reinhold, Karsten Conrad, Dirk Roggenbuck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4166465?pdf=render

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