Neonatal sepsis is a life-threatening disease. Early diagnosis essential, but no single marker of infection has been identified. Sepsis activates coagulation cascade with simultaneous production the D-dimers due to lysis fibrin. D-dimer test reflects activation system.

A sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is described for detection of IgA antibodies to mumps virus. Specific mumps IgA antibodies could be demonstrated in 10 patients with mumps virus infections. No specific mumps IgA antibodies (titres <1/40) were detected by ELISA in 46 control sera (healthy adults; hospitalised patients with various other diseases). The potential application o...

Eastern France was not known as a region endemic for tularemia until year 2006. We report on 2 cases of typhoidal tularemia in Eastern France, a 43-year-old hospitalized woman and her husband. Diagnosis was established after fever clearance on serodiagnosis criteria. The source of infection is unclear. As persons in the same family may likely be exposed to a common zoonotic source of infection,...

A comparative cross sectional study was conducted on blood samples (n=200)collected from children of 1 to 10 years age, selected by convenient sampling method. Differentcoupling agents were used bind measles antigen with erythrocyte suspensions differentconcentrations collected different species for standardization Indirect Hemagglutination Assay(IHA) which then testing serum the detection and ...