A total of 138 serum samples submitted for toxoplasma serology have been examined by enzyme immunoassay using kits produced by Labsystems Oy for the detection of specific antibodies of the IgG and IgM class. Results were compared with the dye test, an indirect haemagglutination test, and an indirect immunofluorescence test for specific IgM. The enzyme immunoassay was less sensitive than the dye...

Can FD&C Blue no. 1 dye photoinactivate bacteriophages phi X174, T7, PRD1, and phi 6 under laboratory lighting conditions? At high levels of light, the dye (500 microM) photoinactivated only phi 6. Thus, this dye can be used at concentrations up to 500 microM with bacteriophages phi X174, T7, and PRD1 to test barrier material integrity.

The titre of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii was compared in 1985 sera by use of an indirect haemagglutination test (ToxHA test--Wellcome Reagents Ltd) and the dye test. Sera from 42 patients with clinical or serological indications of recent toxoplasmosis were also examined to determine if the ToxHA test would be of value in detecting early stages of the disease. Nine recent cases of lymphaden...

This test is quick, cheap, simple, and painless. It is adequate in most cases for the diagnosis of achlorhydria. The usefulness of test meals for diagnosing any other gastric abnormality is questionable. The term " achlorhydria " is usually taken to mean that the gastric juice has a pH of more than 3, as shown by Topfer's reagent or thymol blue. It denotes a relative " an "-acidity rather than ...

BACKGROUND Substituted flavanoids interfere with uncoating of Enteroviruses including Sabin-2 polio vaccine strains. However flavanoid resistant and dependent, type-2 polio vaccine strains (minimally-diverged), emerged during in vitro infections. Between 1998-2009, highly-diverged (8 to >15%) type-2, aVDPV(2)s, from two unrelated persistent infections were periodically isolated from Israeli sew...

Background: Electro-oxidation is developed as an electrochemical method to overcome the problems of  the conventional  decolorization technologies and is an appropriate alternative for the treatment of colored wastewater from various industries. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of the electrochemical oxidation process in  removal  of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and Acid...

this publication uses a colorimetric method based on the absorbance spectra of dye solutions to improve on beer’s law when calculating the dye concentrations of a three-component mixture. the performance of the new method is compared with that of beer’s law evaluated at three wavelengths, and beer’s law evaluated at 16 wavelengths. colorimetric method gives the best prediction of dye concentrat...

conclusions there was no significant statistical difference between mta and cem cement in sealing ability (p > 0.05). results the mean apical penetration of dye in the mta group was 0.94 mm while in the cem cement group this was 1.17 mm. eighty percent of the mta group and 75% of the cem cement group didn’t have any dye leakage. the p level was greater than 0.05 (0.592). materials and methods e...