A large number of cases have been identified in the world with emergence COVID-19 and rapid spread virus. Thousands people died due to COVID-19. This very spreading virus may result serious consequnces including pneumonia, kidney failure acute respiratory infection. It can even cause death severe cases. Therefore, early diagnosis is vital. Due limited test kits, one first diagnostic techniques ...

We evaluated the integration of rapid syphilis tests (RSTs) and penicillin treatment kits into routine antenatal clinic (ANC) services in two rural districts in Nyanza Province, Kenya. In February 2011, nurses from 25 clinics were trained in using RSTs and documenting test results and treatment. During March 2011-February 2012, free RSTs and treatment kits were provided to clinics for use durin...

Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) has attracted increasing interest as potential biomarker to support the diagnosis or monitor the efficacy of therapies in brain disorders. Circulating BDNF can be measured in serum, plasma or whole blood. However, the use of BDNF as biomarker is limited by the poor reproducibility of results, likely due to the variety of methods used for sample collectio...

Anti-Aspergillus IgG antibodies are important biomarkers for the diagnosis of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). We compared the performance of a new commercial enzyme immunoassay (EIA) (Bordier Affinity Products) with that of the Bio-Rad and Virion\Serion EIAs. This assay is novel in its association of two recombinant antigens with somatic...

INTRODUCTION Hepatitis co-infection with HIV is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. METHODS This cross sectional study was carried out among HIV positive patients and HIV negative blood donors, HIV infected patients were recruited from the antiretroviral therapy clinics of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, in Nigeria. The diagnosis of HIV infection among patients an...

The detection of autoantibodies in human sera is an important approach to the diagnosis and management of patients with autoimmune conditions. To meet market demands, manufacturers have developed a wide variety of easy to use and cost-effective diagnostic kits that are designed to detect a variety of human serum autoantibodies. A number of studies over the past two decades have suggested that t...

The need for construction kits (Below) Philosophical background: What is science? Beyond Popper and Lakatos Note on "Making Possible": 1 A Brief History of Construction-kits Beyond supervenience to richer forms of support A corollary: a tree/network of evolved construction kits The role(s) of information in life and its evolution 2 Fundamental and Derived Construction Kits (FCK, DCKs) SMBC comi...

Developing countries have a high prevalence of diabetes and their populations are suffering from associated adverse factors. Such a frequency requires more effective diagnosis, mostly achieved by glucose diagnostic kits. Although high priced kits are available in market but local production of such kits can be highly cost effective and may confer the decline in incidence of the disease. Glucose...