Presently, global efforts are being made to control and eradicate the deadliest tropical diseases through the improvement of adequate interventions. A critical point for programs to succeed is the prompt and accurate diagnosis in endemic regions. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are being massively deployed and used to improve diagnosis in tropical countries. In the present report, we evaluated th...

Abstract An adult female intact rabbit presented through a 24‐h emergency service for exhibiting signs of stage 1 labour over 5 h. Physical examination findings, delayed progression to 2 and diagnostic imaging were consistent with dystocia multiple fetuses present. A laparotomy was performed, during which an en bloc ovariohysterectomy performed after discovery ∼180° counterclockwise uterine tor...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the quality of five commercial enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits (A, B, C, D, and E) from different suppliers for detecting aflatoxin B1 (AFB1). AFB1-free corn samples supplemented with different levels of AFB1 (5, 10, and 20 μg/kg) were used as positive controls and 6 replicates of each control sample were tested to evaluate the accuracy...

Construction kits represent a venerable, creative, and (occasionally) even beautiful genre of educational toys for children. Nonetheless, traditional construction kits have limitations as educational media. In the past decade, a number of research efforts have attempted to address these limitations by augmenting construction kit design with various types of computational media. This paper descr...

Kits of five different suppliers, composed according to the Dutch recommendations for determination of the enzyme activity of alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, gamma-glutamyltransferase, alkaline phosphatase, and creatine kinase, were intercompared. Activity concentrations of the enzymes in human sera were measured under defined conditions, evaluated, ...

We evaluated six commercial radioassay kits in which tritium or iodine tracers are used to measure serum folate. We assessed the adequacy of the literature supplied with the kits, within-run precision, reagent stability, analytical recovery of added pteroylglutamic acid and N-methyltetrahydrofolic acid, results of analysis of patients' samples, and minimum detection limits. There were serious d...

The aim of this study was to estimate the diagnostic value of different commercially available ELISA kits for the detection of bluetongue virus (BTV) antibodies in infected and vaccinated animals. The relative specificity of ELISA kits was evaluated using a panel of sera originating from healthy cattle, never vaccinated nor exposed to BTV. All ELISA kits applied had a high relative specificity ...

features of a world view. There is no better testimony to human intellectual effort over one hundred thousand years than human languages. Rather than letting go of this information, we should try to preserve as much as possible of it before it is too late. 2. The conceptual frameworks associated with different human languages