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 ala...

objective: the aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of ovarian reserve tests, mainly basal and clomiphene stimulated follicle stimulating hormone (fsh) concentrations. materials and methods : a prospective cohort study was conductedon 120 infertile patients referring to mirza koochak khan hospital for ivffrom 2004 to 2006. all the patients underwent clomiphene citrate challenge test (cc...

BACKGROUND Brucellosis is a world-wide disease, which has a diverse clinical manifestation, and its diagnosis has to be proven by laboratory data. Serum agglutination test (SAT) is the most-widely used test for diagnosing brucellosis. The enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) can also determine specific antibody classes against brucella. It is a sensitive, simple and rapid test, which could...

UNLABELLED We reviewed the results of 4,723 day of surgery pregnancy tests performed at two of our institution's locations, our ambulatory surgery center and our acute orthopaedics hospital over a 23 month time period. All patients were scheduled for elective orthopaedic surgery. There were seven positive results (0.15%) and one false negative result (0.02%). The cost per positive result for bo...

A new rK39 rapid diagnostic dipstick test (DiaMed-IT-Leish) was compared with aspiration and a direct agglutination test (DAT) for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in 201 parasitologically confirmed cases, 133 endemic controls, and in 356 clinical suspects in disease-endemic and -epidemic areas in Sudan. The sensitivity of the rK39 test in parasitologically confirmed VL cases was 90%, w...