BACKGROUND Brucellosis is a major bacterial zoonosis of global importance with the causative organisms of Gram-negative facultative intracellular pathogens. The aims of this study were to standardize two immunoelectrophoretic techniques, rocket and cross immunoelectrophoresis, and compare their results with other conventional serodiagnostic tests. METHODS Sera from 15 sheep, without any histo...

The intensification of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and rising frequency of immunocompromised individuals have resulted in a resurgence of opportunistic infections. The most common opportunistic oral fungal infection in HIV-positive individuals is oral candidiasis. The classical presentation is as white scrapable form called as thrush, which is easily diagnosed and treated. The clinician ...

Sera from normal adult humans may contain high levels of antibody reactive with Candida albicans mannan. This study examined selected biological activities of such antibodies, focusing on sera that were collected from 34 donors and analyzed individually. The results showed that antimannan titers were normally distributed. Reactivity as determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with seroty...

A 26-year-old HIV-infected man presented with fever and disseminated maculopapular rash not involving his palms and soles. He had started antiretroviral therapy (ART) with an abacavir-based regimen three days prior. Although he tested negative for HLA-B*5701, the antiretrovirals were suspected to be the offending agent associated with the drug eruption. Within several days after discontinuing t...

This study investigated changes in the complexity (magnitude and structure of variability) of the collective behaviours of association football teams during competitive performance. Raw positional data from an entire competitive match between two professional teams were obtained with the ProZone tracking system. Five compound positional variables were used to investigate the collective patterns...

The aim of the present study was to determine the between-match variability in soccer referees' match performances. 1 269 individual match observations were undertaken on 59 referees (range 2-79 games per referee) officiating in the English Premier League and Championship from 2003/2004 to 2007/2008 using a computerised tracking system (Prozone (®), Leeds, England). Between-match coefficients o...

The New Jersey strain of EHD virus has been propagated in newborn Swiss mice by the intracerebral route and is regularly lethal beyond the first serial mouse passage. A complement-fixing antigen prepared from the brains of infected mice reacts positively with the sera of deer recovered from infection with either the New Jersey or South Dakota strain of virus, but not with the serum of normal de...

Abstract Introduction/Objective Platelet refractory (PR) patients do not achieve expected post-transfusion platelet counts. We investigate such with a count, indirect Antibody Screen (ind-PAS), Class I HLA (HLA-Ab) testing, and crossmatch (PXM). The following three cases highlight potential pitfalls of laboratory investigations for PR patients. Methods/Case Report Case #1 (57-year-old male AML)...

background : brucellosis is a major bacterial zoonosis of global importance with the causative organisms of gram-negative facultative intracellular pathogens. the aims of this study were to standardize two immunoelectrophoretic techniques, rocket and cross immunoelectrophoresis, and compare their results with other conventional serodiagnostic tests. methods : sera from 15 sheep, without any his...