Endocervical swabs from 212 women and urethral swabs from 100 men were tested by the routine methods for McCoy cell culture and simultaneously by a novel enzyme amplified immunoassay test to detect chlamydia antigen. Overall correlation of the amplified test with culture was 96.5%. The test proved to be a suitable screening procedure for genital chlamydial infection, particularly for large numb...

ANSWERS. G.K. Benedix, R.A. Ketcham, T.J. McCoy, and L. Wilson. Dept. of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560-0119 USA, Present Address: Washington University, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Saint Louis, MO 63130 USA ([email protected]), Dept. of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA, Env...

In a 1977 paper of McCoy, Tracy and Wu [2] there appeared for the first time the solution of a Painlevé equation in terms of Fredholm determinants of integral operators. Specifically, it was shown that a one-parameter family of solutions of the equation ψ ′′ (t) + t −1 ψ ′ (t) = 1 2 sinh 2ψ + 2α t −1 sinh ψ, (1) a special case of the Painlevé III equation, is given by ψ(t) =

6.6). In [3, 31, 321 Wu, McCoy, Tracy, and Barouch (WMTB) discovered that the scaled two point functions for the two-dimensional Ising model are expressible in terms of a Painled function of the third kind. This discovery was made by using results from the thesis of Myers [21] (which was in part based upon earlier work by Latta [16]) who established a connection between a linear integral equati...

Several aspects of the adherence of purified elementary bodies (EB) of Chlamydia trachomatis to HeLa and to McCoy cells were examined using different techniques, including an ELISA. Serovar-specific, biotinylated monoclonal antibodies were used to detect cell-bound chlamydiae. In addition, purified chlamydiae were biotinylated and their adherence properties were studied. The assays were done at...

Haemagglutination and tissue culture adherence tests using a McCoy cell line were used to examine the adherence characteristics of 105 strains of Gardnerella vaginalis. Each strain represented one isolate per patient. For each patient, a direct smear of vaginal discharge was examined for clue cells. The relation between in vitro adherence and the presence of clue cells was examined. There seeme...

The only known species regarded as a representative of the family Trichinellidae Ward, 1907, is Trichinella spiralis (Owen, 1835), Railliet, 1895. The differences found in the shape and dimensions of capsules, as well as in the reaction accompanying the muscle phase of trichinellosis, are related to the host rather than to the parasite itself ; this by no means excludes the possible existence o...

The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (FA) staining technique for detecting chlamydial inclusions in scrapings from the whole conjunctiva (upper tarsus, upper fornix, and lower lid) was compared with the sensitivity of culture in irradiated McCoy cells for the diagnosis of hyperendemic trachoma. In a group of 211 patients with various grades of active trachoma from the Bandar Abba...