This paper presents further evidence of the sensitivity and reproducibility of ELISA for the detection of rubella antibody. This test can also be extended to include the diagnosis of recent rubella infections once the index of significance has been computed based on the estimated ELISA ratio of absorbance between the acute and convalescent serum samples. There is a greater than 90% agreement wh...

background and aims: rubella is a contagious viral disease mostly with mild clinical symptoms and often remains undiagnosed. rubella infection may adversely affect pregnancy, especially in the first trimester and this mother to child transmission can cause congenital rubella and may be lead to permanent disability and mortality in children. effective rubella vaccine should be prepared using sui...

A systematic study was made of certain variables of the rubella hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test system and their effect on antigen and antibody titers. Erythrocytes from pigeons and 1-day-old chicks gave similar antigen and antibody titers, but goose erythrocytes gave lower titers. Indicator erythrocytes could be stored in Alsever's solution at 4 C for as long as 2 weeks without losing se...

Introduction. MMR and Varicella vaccines contain live attenuated virus, a contraindication during pregnancy. For this reason, it is important to clinically assess barriers vaccination the preconception time period avoid known fetal morbidity associated with congenital Rubella or infection. Methods. To determine prevalence of patients nonimmune status for in setting advanced reproductive care. S...

57 women affected by abortion or threatened abortion were investigated in view of antitoxoplasmosis antibodies by immunofluorscence. 11 women who have aborted for the first time have positive titer of polyvalent antibodies more than 1/400. 77.3% of these women have igm titer greater than 1/20. the highest percentage of abortion was in the third month of pregnancy and this is probabley related t...

The present study was conducted over a period of one year to find the right time for measles vaccination when maternal antibody titer in infants was decayed rendering them susceptible to wild virus infection. Blood samples were collected from the cord of new born (147), 2-5 months (47) and 5 to 7.5 months (24) of age. The mean measles IgG antibody titer detected in cord blood at birth (0 months...

Hemolytic disease of newborn (HDN) is caused by the emergence of inappropriate antibodies against fetal blood antigens, which includes ABO and Rh blood group incompatibility. This study investigated the association between prenatal blood group antibody titer and HDN to provide a theoretic basis for clinical practice. ABO and Rh blood group of 7894 pregnant women and their husbands were screened...

Background Identification of pregnant women susceptible to rubella is important as vaccination can be given postpartum to prevent future risks of congenital rubella syndrome. However, rubella antibody screening is not offered as a routine practice in antenatal mothers in government run community health clinics in Malaysia at present due to cost constraint. Instead, a history of rubella vaccinat...

BACKGROUND Rubella is a mild viral infectious disease, usually occurs subclinically without a serious complication. But if occurs during pregnancy, specially the first trimester, it can transmit and invade to fetus causing congenital rubella syndrome or fetal death. In 2003, nearly all Iranians at the age of 5 to 25 years old were vaccinated against rubella and the vaccine was included in the c...