Solid-phase immunosorbent hemadsorption (SPIHAtl) for specific IgM detennination has been introduced for rubella serodiagnosis in combination with hemagglutination inhibition test (HAl) during the outbreak prevaDed from September 1983 to August 1984 with its peak in March. By HAl test, 92.7% of patients with apparent rubella infection whose first blood was obtained within 3 days after rash show...

Although the data are not available, it seems that the risk to the fetus of asymptomatic reinfection is small,3" and certainly it is far less than that of primary rubella. In the rare cases of symptomatic reinfection viraemia may be presumed to have occurred, putting the fetus at appreciable risk.9 An antibody response may be confidently ascribed to reinfection if two or more previous positive ...

This study was conducted to assess clinical and laboratory screening for suspected congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) and to evaluate the efficacy of reporting of CRS cases at the Children’s Hospital and the Institute of Child Health. A total of 100 infants suspected of having rubella infection were included in the study. Rubella titer was used as an indicator. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay ...

To define the concentration of anti-rubella virus (RV) antibodies discriminating nonimmune from immune persons and to characterize immune responses to rubella vaccination, serologic studies were performed after rubella vaccination in persons with low or undetectable antibody concentrations. Thirty-six subjects with primary immune responses had prevaccination anti-RV IgG concentrations <15 IU/mL...

Radial haemolysis (RH) for assaying rubella antibody was studied in parallel tests with haemagglutination-inhibition (HAI) on 1102 sera from adult women. Simple to perform and economical in reagents, the RH test is as sensitive as the HAI test and is a useful method of screening antenatal and other sera for rubella immunity. It detects IgG but not IgM antibody.

in order to study and evaluate the indirect immunofluorescent test and the ratio of cd41ymphocytes to cd8 lymphocytes, 97 cases of positive candida cultures were selected from among 400 patients referring to the hospital and suspected of candidiasis. in this study 39% of the patients had an antibody titer less than 1: 160 no significant correlation was seen between canclidiasis and the results ...

An automated microparticle enzyme immunoassay (IMx Rubella IgG Antibody Assay; Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Ill.) was compared with a conventional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detection of rubella-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) in 400 consecutive antenatal patients. There was complete agreement between the two tests in this population, which had a positivity rate of 99%...

Primary infections caused by rubella and cytomegalovirus (CMV) can lead to serious complications in pregnancy. Rubella and CMV screening of pregnant women is not routinely carried out in Turkey. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of rubella and cytomegalovirus among pregnant women. The study was carried out in Samsun Maternity and Women's Disease and Pediatrics Hospital i...