Tools to Detect Influenza Virus

Tools to Detect Influenza Virus

In 2009, pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus (H1N1 09) started to spread quickly in many countries. It causes respiratory infection with signs and symptoms of common infectious agents. Thus, clinicians sometimes may miss the H1N1 patient. Clinical laboratory tests are important for the diagnosis of the H1N1 infection. There are several tests available, however, the rapid test and direct fluoresce...

Ophthalmic Imaging Tools to Detect Glaucoma Progression

Ocular imaging devices provide objective and reliable structural measurements and estimate structural progression that has important clinical implications in ocular pathologies such as glaucoma. This review describes the working principles and main methods for detection of glaucoma progression used in the leading commercially available ocular imaging. This information allows clinicians to bette...

A Combination of Serological Assays to Detect Human Antibodies to the Avian Influenza A H7N9 Virus

Human infection with avian influenza A H7N9 virus was first identified in March 2013 and represents an ongoing threat to public health. There is a need to optimize serological methods for this new influenza virus. Here, we compared the sensitivity and specificity of the hemagglutinin inhibition (HI), microneutralization (MN), and Western blot (WB) assays for the detection of human antibodies ag...

2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus Seroepidemiology

Review of rapid molecular diagnostic tools for avian influenza virus.

Molecular diagnostic tests are commonly used to diagnose avian influenza virus because they are sensitive and can be performed rapidly, with high throughput, and at a moderate cost. Molecular diagnostic tests recently have proven themselves to be invaluable in controlling disease outbreaks around the world. Several different methods, including traditional reverse transcription-polymerase chain ...