Prevalence and Clinical Significance of Anti-DFS70 in ANA Positive Patients Undergoing Routine ANA Testing in a New Zealand Public Hospital

The presence of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) in serum is the hallmark diagnostic test for most Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease (SARD). Anti-dense fine speckled (DFS) 70 is an autoantibody that produces a characteristic dense fine speckled pattern in the ANA HEp-2 indirect immunofluorescence (I...

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Main Author: Lucas, Stacey (Author)
Other Authors: Merien, Fabrice (Contributor), Chang, Wee Leong (Joe) (Contributor)
Format: Others
Published: Auckland University of Technology, 2017-07-05T02:53:09Z.
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ANA
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