OBJECTIVES To investigate the indications for the use of a type specific antibody test for herpes simplex virus in a department of genitourinary medicine in the United Kingdom. METHOD Retrospective analysis of case records of 127 patients who accepted the test during a 20 month period. RESULTS/CONCLUSION The test contributed to patient management in 79% of patients with recurrent genital ul...

Objective(s): Hydatidosis is a zoonotic infection and endemic in Iran. Due to the serological cross-reactivity (of sera) with other parasitic infection, diagnosis of hydatid cyst is considered to be problematic. In this regard, application of recombinant antigens improves serological diagnosis for human hydatidosis. Here, we present an ELISA test based on B8/2 recombinant antigen of Echinococcu...

background: a lot of remedies, mostly plant based, were mentioned in the persian old pharmacopoeias for promoting of burn and wound healing and tissue repairing. the efficacy of most of these old remedies is unexplored till now. adiantum capillus‑veneris from adiantaceae family is one of them that was used to treating of some kinds of chronic wounds. methods: methanol extract was fractionated t...

Rapid antibody detection has been used widely as a diagnostic aid in the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB), especially for bacterium-negative TB. We evaluated the diagnostic value of four commercial antibody detection kits with 501 sera from TB patients and controls. The sensitivities and specificities of the four kits were as follows: (1) Rapid test A 71.8% and 91.4% (85.5% for non-TB diseases an...

The potential uses of serological tests that detect HCV core antigens in biological fluids are highlighted. The most common serological tests utilized to detect exposure to HCV rely on the detection of antibodies to HCV. However, these tests cannot distinguish between individuals who have resolved their infection and those who remain actively infected with HCV. By contrast, the HCV core antigen...

The study was conducted in two districts of Oromiya regional state in Arsi-Bale highlands. The data were collected on the occurrence of T.evansi infection in sheep and goats. The disease has been detected by two serological tests (CATT and LATEX) and antibodies were demonstrated against T.evansi at least in one of the examined animals in two districts: Dodolla (Danaba, Wabe, Tulualewanso and Ga...

The 2 2 model of perfectionism examines the relation between four subtypes of perfectionism and psychological adjustment (Gaudreau & Thompson, 2010). Researchers have investigated subtypes of perfectionism using common multivariate statistical analyses. The development of a new measure is warranted to evaluate whether individuals can, with a decent degree of certainty, assess by themselves thei...

Currently, there are three algorithms for screening of syphilis: traditional algorithm, reverse algorithm and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) algorithm. To date, there is not a generally recognized diagnostic algorithm. When syphilis meets HIV, the situation is even more complex. To evaluate their screening performance and impact on the seroprevalence of syphilis in HI...

Three-hundred sixty sera from unselected patients attending two London venereal disease clinics were examined by a microimmunofluorescence test. Eleven egg-grown serotypes of Chlamydia trachomatis and the so-called "fast" strain SA2(f) were used as antigens. Of the 360 sera tested, 119 (33%) reacted to a titer of 1:16 or above with at least one antigen. Of these positive sera, over 50% cross-re...

Serological classification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by the slide agglutination test with live organisms was studied, based on the O antigen schema adopted by the international expert panel sponsored by the Subcommittee on Pseudomonas and Related Organisms of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology. The typing results obtained by the slide test with well-absorbed O sera were iden...