Campylobacter species, primarily Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli, are regarded as a major cause of human gastrointestinal disease, commonly acquired by eating undercooked chicken. We describe a PCR-ELISA for the detection of Campylobacter species and the discrimination of C. jejuni and C. coli in poultry samples. The PCR assay targets the 16S/23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer regi...

Bertino, Ferrari and Atluri (BFA) have recently presented a model for specifying and enforcing authorization constraints for Workflow Management Systems (WFMS). The model is comprehensive and exhibits strong properties such as (1) a language to express constraints, (2) formal notions of constraint consistency and (3) algorithms for role-task and user-task assignments. In this paper, we extend t...

Recently, IACR ePrint archive posted two fully homomorphic encryption schemes without bootstrapping. In this note, we show that these schemes are trivially insecure. Furthermore, we also show that the encryption schemes of Liu and Wang [6] in CCS 2012 and the encryption scheme of Liu, Bertino, and Xun [5] in ASIACCS 2014 are insecure either.

In this paper, we present a provably secure redactable signature scheme allowing to independently redact structure and content. We identify the problems when structure is not separated from content, resulting in an attack on the scheme proposed at VLDB ’08 by Kundu and Bertino. The attack allows for changing the semantic meaning of a given tree. We introduce a rigid security model, including co...

BACKGROUND The measurement of high-molecular-weight (HMW) adiponectin concentration provides valuable clinical information. However, the conventional ELISA method requires complicated and lengthy assay procedures to obtain assay results. METHODS We prepared new assay reagents based on chemiluminescent enzyme immunoassay (CLEIA) on a fully-automated analyzer system using the same IH7 monoclona...

Background: Type I interferon (IFN-I) activation is a prominent feature of several Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (RMDs) including primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) sclerosis (SSc). Ultrasensitive single-molecule array (SiMoA) technology has facilitated the measurement subfemtomolar concentrations IFNs [1-3]. Objectives: Here, we tested performance com...

  Background :Some results exist on fetuin-A as marker for vascular disease in type 2diabetes. We examined the relationship between serum fetuin-A with some factors, in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).   Methods : From October 2012 to June 2013, a total of 131 T2DM patients were recruited and evaluated for various parameters including HOMA-IR, Apo-A1, Apo-B100, body fat percentage...

background :some results exist on fetuin-a as marker for vascular disease in type 2diabetes. we examined the relationship between serum fetuin-a with some factors, in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm).   methods : from october 2012 to june 2013, a total of 131 t2dm patients were recruited and evaluated for various parameters including homa-ir, apo-a1, apo-b100, body fat percentage a...

Abstract Background All modern gastrointestinal (GI) testing laboratories face a similar challenge: How to test panel of analytes from the same stool or plasma/serum sample and deliver clinically accurate results in timely fashion. GI are tested primarily on ELISAs that while accurate, manual ELISA is time-consuming work intensive. In this study, we utilize automated ALPCO five-plex assay (Auto...

Traditional geostatistical space-time geostatistics is not able to take account of the generally strongly non-linear dynamics of multivariate space-time processes. To this effect physico-chemical transport models are in general more suitable. However, as the latter do not fully master the complexity of the processes they attempt to describe, either because of simplifying hypotheses or because t...