For many years the IFN-gamma ex vivo ELISPOT has been a major assay for assessing human T-cell responses generated by malaria vaccines. The ELISPOT assay is a sensitive assay, but an imperfect correlate of protection against malaria. Monokine induced by gamma (MIG), or CXCL9, is a chemokine induced by IFN-gamma and has the potential to provide amplification of the IFN-gamma signal. MIG secretio...

Anti-Aspergillus IgG antibodies are important biomarkers for the diagnosis of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). We compared the performance of a new commercial enzyme immunoassay (EIA) (Bordier Affinity Products) with that of the Bio-Rad and Virion\Serion EIAs. This assay is novel in its association of two recombinant antigens with somatic...

The Track XI system (Microbiological Associates, Bethesda, Md.) was compared with the Bio-EnzaBead assay (Organon Teknika, Durham, N.C.) for the detection of antibody to mouse hepatitis virus (MHV). Strain A/J mice were inoculated intranasally with MHV type 3. Sera were collected at 1, 2, 4, and 9 weeks postinoculation and tested. Individual serum samples were retested twice by each method. The...

Determination of pesticide levels in natural water bodies requires complex chemical methods not always available in tropical countries where such control programmes are implemented. Apart from chemical methods, effectiveness of treatment can be estimated by mortality of target and non-target species. But the latter criteria do not permit a good appraisal of dispersion and residual activity of p...

BACKGROUND Xylosyltransferase I (XT-I), the key enzyme in the biosynthesis of glycosaminoglycan chains in proteoglycans, has increased activity in the blood serum of patients with connective tissue diseases. Therefore, the measurement of serum XT-I activity is useful to monitor disease activity in these patients. METHODS We developed an HPLC electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry me...

A dot blot hybridization test was developed for the detection of enterotoxigenic E. coli without the use of radioisotopes. Three biotin-labeled DNA (Bio-DNA) probes corresponding to structural genes specifying heat-labile and heat-stable enterotoxins of porcine and human origin were prepared by random priming; label incorporation was significantly higher than that obtained from the use of nick ...

A novel CMOS bio-pixel array which integrates assay substrate and assay readout is demonstrated for multiplex and multireplicate detection of a triplicate of cytokines with single digit pg ml(-1) sensitivities. Uniquely designed large area bio-pixels enable individual assays to be dedicated to and addressed by single pixels. A capability to simultaneously measure a large number of targets is pr...

BACKGROUND Hyperhomocysteinemia has been associated with coronary atherosclerosis in many, but not all, prospective and retrospective studies. Some on these inconsistencies may be attributed to methodological variabilities. METHODS In the present study, three newly commercially available assays and one in-house HPLC assay for total homocysteine (tHcy) were utilized in 99 subjects with angiogr...