The performance of a commercial rapid immunochromatographic dengue IgG/IgM assay device was evaluated against an in-place dengue IgM-capture ELISA in the National Public Health laboratory. Of the 239 serum samples from patients with clinical diagnosis of acute dengue illness, 140 and 99 samples were tested positive and negative respectively for anti-dengue IgM by the in-placed ELISA. Comparativ...

A recently developed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of immunoglobulin M (IgM) class antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii was evaluated with respect to specificity and sensitivity. By using an antibody capture principle and F(ab')2 conjugates, interference of rheumatoid factors was absent. No cross-reactions with anti-toxoplasma IgG occurred, and no interference with antinuclear anti...

Background: Dengue is an acute viral infection has emerged as a notable public health problem. Rapid immunochromatographic test and IgM/IgG ELISA been the mainstay of diagnosis. Combination NS1 antigen detection along with antibody increases diagnostic rates. Thrombocytopenia begins during febrile phase. Therefore, we tried to evaluate association platelet counts against (NS1 IgM/IgG) IgM in de...

Enzyme immunoassays (ELISA) have been developed for the detection of BK virus IgG- and IgM-antibodies. Specific IgG is detected by an antigen-coated solid phase test; IgM by an antibody capture method. These methods have been used to study the age-distribution of BK virus antibodies in Tromsø county in Northern Norway. The serum panels tested were: 60 sera from paediatric patients aged 0-1 year...

A microELISA has been set up which is able to sensitively quantitate mouse monoclonal IgM in hybridoma culture supernatants in a suitable range of concentrations. This assay uses ion exchange chromatography-purified rabbit anti-mouse IgM polyclonal antibodies, both in coating capture step and conjugated to horseradish peroxidase in revealing step. It was possible to detect concanavalin A-Sephar...

Acute human parvovirus B19 infection is followed by an antibody response to the structural proteins of the viral capsid (VP1 and VP2). We used 80 sera collected from 58 erythema infectiosum and 6 transient aplastic crisis patients to test IgM and IgG antibodies against these two proteins in an immunofluorescence assay (IFA) using Sf9 cells infected with recombinant baculovirus expressing either...

BACKGROUND Since 2002, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved 6 rapid human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) tests for use in the United States. To date, there has been no direct comparison of the performance of all 6 tests. METHODS Persons known to be HIV-infected and persons who sought HIV testing at 2 clinical sites in Los Angeles, California, were recruited for evaluation of 6 rapid...