par Servais, Geneviève;Karmali, Rafik
;Guillaume, Marie-Paule
;Badot, Valérie
;Duchateau, Jean
;Corazza, Francis 
Référence Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine, 47, 5, page (543-549)
Publication Publié, 2009-05





Référence Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine, 47, 5, page (543-549)
Publication Publié, 2009-05
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | Antinuclear autoantibody determination relies on an initial screening step using immunofluorescence on HEp2 cells. This may be followed by anti-deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) determination, if the fluorescence of nuclei is homogeneous. We assessed the validity of a restricted algorithm and compared this to a more comprehensive algorithm that accepted any nuclear pattern as a positive indicator. |