Chronic hepatosplenic suppurative brucellosis (CHSB) is a local reactivation of a previous brucellosis, coursing with an immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgA secondary immunological response. The observation of two cases of CHSB with an apparent IgM response gave rise to a detailed serological study of three of our patients. We studied the first sample from all three patients and successive samples f...

BACKGROUND Association of autoimmune haemolytic anaemia has been seldom reported with Kawasaki disease. CASE CHARACTERISTICS A 7-month-old boy, presented with prolonged fever, erythematous rash, severe pallor and hepatosplenomegaly. OBSERVATIONS Positive Direct Coombs test and coronary artery aneurysm on echocardiography. He was managed with steroids along with intravenous immunoglobulins a...

The calculating method for fuel consumption (FC) was put forward and calibrated and the characteristics of the fuel consumption on intersections were analyzed based on 18 groups of vehicular operating data which were acquired from the test experiment of a single vehicle along the urban arterial roads in Harbin, China. The results obtained show that 50.36% of the fuel consumption for the test ve...

abstract in 2004 and 2005 growing seasons, 260 bean leaf samples with mosaic, vein-banding, and leaf-rolling symptoms were collected from bean fields of fars, kohgiluye va boyer-ahmad, isfahan and tehran provinces. elisa test (das-elisa and indirect-elisa), using bcmv antiserum, confirmed infection of 110 samples to bcmv. a selected isolate of bcmv from fars province was inoculated on three bea...

THORNLEY, Wilson, Hormaeche, Oates and Coombs (1979) used a method of solid-phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) devised for brucella antigens (Wilson, Thornley and Coombs, 1977) to detect gonococcal antigens in a buffer system. When this test was used to detect gonococcal antigens in urine samples, many were found to be strongly inhibitory. This paper describes a study of some of the properties of the...

Specific allergic histamine release from leucocytes, radioallergosorbent tests (RAST) and indirect fluorescent antibody tests (IFAT) were applied for immunodiagnosis of schistosomiasis in patients outside endemic area. Of 10 parasitologically verified cases--all of them exhibiting a low and irregular egg output--8 were detected by histamine release, whereas 4 patient with filariasis, 3 with tri...

The immunodiagnostic assessment of dogs suspected having immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA) is based on persistent autoagglutination erythrocytes (after three saline washes), marked spherocytosis, and a positive direct antiglobulin (Coombs’) test (DAT). However, the value using indirect (IAT) for detection anti-erythrocytic autoantibodies in serum from IMHA unclear. To evaluate IAT, leftov...

It was shown by Wiener (1944) that some human a,nti-Rh sera contained incomplete antibodies which combined with but did not agglutinate the corresponding red cells. They appeared to be more avid than agglutinating antibodies, so that, if the two kinds of antibody co-existed in the same serum, the incomplete or blocking antibody might account for failure of agglutination or for a zone of inhibit...

BACKGROUND Asthma is associated with high indirect costs due to lower work productivity and higher absenteeism and presenteeism. OBJECTIVES To study loss of productivity measured using the lost workday equivalent (LWDE) index and health care utilization in asthmatics depending on age, geographical location, time period, severity, and level of asthma control. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this cro...

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia is characterized by shortened red blood cell survival and a positive Coombs test. The responsible autoantibodies may be either warm reactive or cold reactive. The rate of hemolysis and the severity of the anemia may vary from mild to severe and life-threatening. Diagnosis is made in the laboratory by the findings of anemia, reticulocytosis, a positive Coombs test, an...