BACKGROUND Streptococcus pneumoniae has more than 95 distinct serotypes described to date. However, only certain serotypes are more likely to cause pneumococcal diseases. Thus serotype surveillance is important for vaccine formula design as well as in post-vaccine serotype shift monitor. The goal of this study was to develop a practical screening assay for ten Shenzhen China common pneumococcal...

duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd) and becker muscular dystrophy (bmd) can be caused by deletions, duplications or point mutations in the dmd gene that encodes dystrophin. partial gene duplications account for up to 5-10 % of dmd and up to 5- 19% of bmd cases. cases with gene duplication in dmd/bmd are determined by quantitative methods such as maph, sothern blotting and q-pcr that are laborious...

mutations in the dystrophin gene cause duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd), the most commonly inherited neuromuscular disorder, and becker muscular dystrophy (bmd), the milder allelic form of the disease. the mutation spectrum within this gene is unusual in that deletion of one or more exons are found in ~65% of cases. since no effective treatment is so far available for these diseases, the ident...

SALSA MLPA probemix P027 Uveal melanoma Page 1 of 7 SALSA MLPA probemix P027-C1 Uveal melanoma Lot C1-0814 & C1-0213 & C1-0211: A large number of probes have been replaced by other probes in the same chromosomal regions as compared to previous lots, and several reference probes have been replaced/included. Details are in Table 1. As a result, the version number has been changed to C1. In additi...

background: in recent studies, partial deletions of the azoospermia factor c region (azfc) on the y-chromosome have been detected in males with infertility problems. however, there has been a lot of debate about their significance. in order to study such deletions, a simple but accurate method for their detection was applied in this study. methods: we present data obtained from the multiplex li...

We developed a novel gelatin particle agglutination test (MLPA) for the serodiagnosis of leprosy; this test is especially useful for clinical practice and epidemiological surveys of leprosy in countries in which the disease is endemic. The antigen used in the test is the chemically synthesized trisaccharide moiety of Mycobacterium leprae-specific phenolic glycolipid I. MLPA is a simple and easy...

We compared 2 serological tests for the diagnosis of leprosy to test their performances. The tests include the serum antibody competition test (SACT) for the detection of antibodies to Mycobacterium leprae-specific epitope on 35 KDa protein molecule, and M. leprae gelatin particle agglutination assay (MLPA), for the detection of antiphenolic glycolipid-1 (PGL-1) antibodies. In both the assays a...

materials and methods a number of 100 patients with imr, normal karyotypes and negative fragile-x and metabolic tests were screened for subtelomeric abnormalities using mlpa technique. results nine of 100 patients showed subtelomeric abnormalities with at least one of the two mlpa kits. deletion in a single region was found in 3 patients, and in two different subtelomeric regions in 1 patient. ...

Background Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) represents about 3-5% of cases of diabetes mellitus (DM). Searching for mutations can be performed either by Sanger sequencing or Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA) technique. MLPA is a powerful molecular tool that identifies large genetic rearrangements such as deletions and insertions, even though these kinds of mutat...