The aim of the study is to determine the seroprevalence and risk factors for Toxoplasma gondii infection in women of reproductive age within the Małopolska province who were examined in the Laboratory of Microbiological Diagnostics, Chair of Microbiology in Cracow in 2013-2014. Seventy-eight questionnaires completed by women of reproductive age (mean age 29.91±6.56) were analysed. In total, 82%...

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 13, No. 2, February 2007 351 nationally agreed upon. This case illustrates another potential pitfall in melioidosis serodiagnosis. Most isolates express a conserved LPS antigen, which allows use of a single reference strain for determination of anti-LPS antibodies (8). However, because some strains express different LPS antigens, serologic t...

Numerous serological tests for syphilis have been devised; there is, however, little information available indicating which test or combination of tests gives the most reliable results in routine serological work. The present paper attempts to answer this question. Five modern serological tests, differing from each other as widely as possible, were applied to a series of 470 serums from syphili...

SEROLOGICAL TESTS IN LATE SYPHILIS* BY A. REDMOND, C. S. NICOL, and R. A. SHOOTER From Sr. Bartholomew's Hospiial, London Since January, 1949, all patients with late syphilis attending the Special Treatment Centre of St. Bartholomew's Hospital have had quantitative Wassermann reactions performed on their sera before and after treatment. 83 patients have been investigated by monthly tests for a ...

After the swine vesicular disease (SVD) outbreaks in 1992 in the Netherlands a national monitoring programme was initiated, testing 12 samples from every pig farm three times per year. In this monitoring a slightly higher cut-off was used than the cut-off agreed on within the European community. The author has analysed the effect of this higher cut-off on the percentage of false positive and fa...

Comparison of the results of cultures from blood and sputum with those of agglutinin response in 40 cases of bacterial pneumonia and 36 controls suggests that a provisional identification of causal bacteria, for purposes of antibiotic therapy, may be made by the serological tests with much greater rapidity and comparable accuracy. A combination of these methods is recommended.

The Association of State and Territorial Public Health Laboratory Directors, CDC, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, and the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards cosponsored the Second National Conference on Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease held October 27-29, 1994. Conference recommendati...

The frequency of positive serological tests for Chlamydia trachomatis, the most common sexually transmitted pathogen in the United States, was assessed in 18,622 specimens derived from New Jersey clinics. From the results, 13 percent female patients and 17 percent male patients were reactive for chlamydial antigen.

  Background and Objective: Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder, characterized by inflammation, villous atrophy, and crypt hyperplasia of the small bowel mucosa. In this study we considered and compared sensitivity and specificity of serological tests in patients with celiac disease. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study we prospectively recruited children with suspected c...