The rK39 strip test is non-predictor of clinical status for kala-azar

IMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC STRIP TEST DETECTION OF ANTI-rK39 ANTIBODY FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF KALA-AZAR IN AN ENDEMIC ZONE OF BANGLADESH

Objectives: A rapid immunochromatographic dipstick test (ICT) has become available for the qualitative detection of anti-Leishmania antibody using recombinant rK39 antigen. This study was carried out at the department of Microbiology of Rajshahi Medical College, Bangladesh, in order to evaluate the diagnostic potential of immunochromatographic dipstick test. Methodology: A total of one hundred ...

Sample survey for indigenous cases of kala-azar in Assam by rk39 dipstick test.

In 1950s the Government of India under National Malaria Eradication Programme (NMEP) now National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, launched massive insecticidal spraying with DDT for malaria vector control and kala-azar came to a halt in Assam as a collateral benefit of malaria eradication programme. As a result, there were no further reports of kala-azar from the northeastern region exc...

The Globulin Opacity Test for Kala-Azar

One part of serum is mixed with six parts of / distilled water when a turbidity forms. The precipitated globulin, after being uniformly mixed with the diluted serum, is poured into a graduated cylinder, the diameter of which is 1 inch. On looking through the height of the fluid containing the precipitated globulin over some black spots fixed to the bottom of the cylinder and adding more and mor...

Complement Fixation Test for Kala-Azar

A New Serological Test for Kala-Azar

Recently, Major R. N. Chopra, i.m.s., Pro| fessor of Pharmacology at the Calcutta School ; of Tropical Medicine, whilst carrying out some j pharmacological experiments with antimony ; compounds, noticed that when the serum from a kala-azar patient was added to certain of the pentavalent compounds of antimony a heavy precipitate was formed. He found that this precipitate was not formed if normal...