feline infectious peritonitis virus (fipv) is ubiquitous in domestic cats, especially in young cats and multi-cat environments. in the present study, a total of 248 companion cats of different ages were examined for serum antibody detection of fipv by immunochromatography assay. the cats were selected from those referring to veterinary hospital of ahvaz university, southwestern iran from decemb...

Helicobacter pylori prevalence is decreasing globally and prevalence of non H. pylori gastric ulcers is increasing. The following study was conducted to assess the prevalence of H. pylori in benign gastric ulcers in a sample of Sri Lankan patients. This was a cross-sectional study of 59 dyspeptic patients with benign gastric ulcers. Multiple endoscopic gastric biopsies were obtained and histolo...

INTRODUCTION In Brazil, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has spread to various regions. This study reports canine cases of VL in Barra Mansa, where human VL cases were recently reported. METHODS Using the human index case, a canine survey was performed by dual-path platform immunochromatography and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Seropositive animals were euthanized. Cultures were collected to ...

OBJECTIVE To assess a new immunochromatography (ICT) test that detects glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) antigen and Clostridium difficile toxin A/B simultaneously, and to propose an algorithm for the diagnosis of C. difficile infection (CDI) based on this test. METHODS We analysed 970 stool samples. Discrepant results between GDH and toxin A/B were resolved using toxigenic culture as the referen...

Rapid immunochromatography test (RICT) kits are commonly used for the diagnosis of canine parvovirus (CPV) because their rapid turnaround time, simplicity, and ease use. However, potential cross-reactivity low sensitivity can yield false-positive or false-negative results. There 4 genotypes CPV. Therefore, evaluating performance reliability RICT CPV detection is essential to ensure accurate app...

A novel GII.17 norovirus has emerged as a major cause of epidemic and endemic acute gastroenteritis in several countries in Asia. We used a small panel of stool samples in which GII.17 virus had been quantified by real-time RT-PCR to evaluate four commercially available norovirus immunochromatography (IC) kits. At least 10(8) copies/mL of GII.17 virus were required by each IC kit for a positive...

canine parvovirus type 2 (cpv-2) is one of the most common viruses responsible for acute hemorrhagic enteritis in dogs. a rapid and accurate diagnosis of cpv-2 infection is especially important in kennels in order to isolate infected dogs. the aim of the present study was to compare two laboratory tests i.e., polymerase change reaction (pcr) and immunochromatography assay (ica) most commonly us...

a new competitive immunochromatography (icg) strip test based on polyclonal antibody (pab) conjugated with gold nanoparticles (nps) was developed and its applications for primary screening of immunoglobulin (ig) a in serum were evaluated. nanocolloidal gold as the detection reagent, with an average particle diameter of 20 nm, was synthesized and labelled pab. the antibody-nanocolloidal gold pro...