Many patients with Chagas disease live in remote communities that lack both equipment and trained personnel to perform a diagnosis by conventional serology (CS). Thus, reliable tests suitable for use under difficult conditions are required. In this study, we evaluated the ability of personnel with and without laboratory skills to perform immunochromatographic (IC) tests to detect Chagas disease...

We evaluated the titers of anti-T. gondii antibodies by various serological tests in 40 serum samples from dogs exhibiting clinical signs of infectious diseases. Indirect immunofluorescence (IgG-IFI), indirect haemagglutination (IHA and M-Toxo) and immunoenzymatic (ELISA and PA-ELISA) tests were carried out. Titers > or = 64 were considered as positive. Anti-Toxoplasma antibodies were found in ...

In the most recent study on the serological characterisation of Australian isolates of A pleuropneumoniae, a large percentage of isolates either gave cross-reactions with serovars 3 and 6 (47/256 isolates) or no reaction at all (91/256 isolates).11 This study was performed using slide agglutination and GD, techniques which had performed effectively in the past.5 The high incidence of isolates t...

The aim of our study was to evaluate the potential differences in blood pressure (BP) profile in subjects with different forms of primary aldosteronism (PA). Simultaneously, we studied the effects of PA treatment on BP curve. We therefore monitored 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure values in 22 subjects with aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA), 22 subjects with idiopathic hyperaldosteronism (IH...

Four hundred and ninety two samples of serum from blood donors were screened for the presence of antibodies specific to cytomegalovirus using radioimmunoassay, a modified complement fixation test, and five commercially available tests: the Cetus CMV IHA, Abbott CMV total AB EIA, Cytomegalisa Stat EIA, Enzygnost EIA, and Virenz G-CMV EIA. A wide variation in results was found, with only 53.5% of...

Five commercial assays were compared to a standardized complement fixation (CF) test for the detection of antibody to cytomegalovirus. Two hundred and thirty serum specimens were analyzed. In addition, nine pairs of acute- and convalescent-phase sera were tested by two of the commercial assays. The assays were compared as to sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive value, ...

Otonom olarak hareket eden İnsansız Hava Araçlarında (İHA) yük taşıma sistemi sivil ve askeri alanlarda sıklıkla kullanılmaktadır. Coğrafi koşulların elverişsiz olduğu operasyon bölgelerinde belirlenen konumdan alınan faydalı yükün belirli bir rota takip edilerek hedeflenen konuma minimum hata ile bırakılması büyük önem arz etmektedir. Bu tür görevlerin başarıyla gerçekleştirilebilmesi için İHA...

Eski dönemlere ait birçok arkeolojik alanı ve kültürel miras yapılarını içinde barındıran Şanlıurfa, Şuayip Peygamber’in yaşadığı yer olduğuna olan inançtan dolayı Şehri olarak bilinen da bünyesinde barındırmaktadır. Arkeolojik alanlar bu alanlarda gün yüzüne çıkarılan yapılar hem kültür turizmi açısından de bilimsel anlamda önem taşımaktadır. Bu çalışmada yersel fotogrametri İnsansız Hava Arac...

As there was not any previous comprehensive study on the serological tests for hepatic amebiasis in Iran, the indirect hemagglutination (IHA), indirect fluorescent antibody (IF A), and biocolored latex agglutination (BLA) tests were evaluated in the serodiagnosis of amebic liver abscess(ALA). For this purpose a total of 165 serum samples 18 of which were obtained from patients known to have...