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Review Article| Volume 29, ISSUE 4, P635-647, December 2009

Developments in Immunologic Assays for Respiratory Viruses

  • Marie Louise Landry
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    Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208035, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8035.
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    Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208035, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8035, USA

    Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital, Clinical Virology Laboratory, New Haven, 20 York Street, CT 06504, USA
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          An error occurred in the article ‘Developments in Immunologic Assays for Respiratory Viruses’ by Marie Louise Landry, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 638 (December 2009). The credit line for Table 1 should have been placed with Table 2, and read “Data from Landry ML, Ferguson D. Suboptimal detection of influenza virus in adults by the Directigen Flu A+B enzyme immunoassay and correlation of results with the number of antigen-positive cells detected by cytospin immunofluorescence. J Clin Microbiol 2003;41:3407–9.” We apologize for this oversight.
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