Objective: SARS-CoV-2 RNA positivity in stool COVID-19 infection has been reported at rates varying between 6-83%. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence H.pylori and investigate whether it determines disease prognosis patients.
 Methods: This conducted on 117 confirmed patients who were hospitalized due symptomatic pneumonia tested for antigen. Stool H. pylori test outc...

On the shores of Lake Chad, schistosomiasis among mobile pastoralists was investigated in a field laboratory. Point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) cassette test, reagent strip, and filtration were conducted on urine samples. Fresh stool samples were subjected to the Kato-Katz technique, and fixed samples were examined with an ether-concentration method at a reference laboratory....

A four-layer antispecies radioimmunoassay (RIA) was developed for the detection of adenovirus in stool specimens. Polystyrene beads were used as the solid phase, anti-adenovirus guinea pig immunoglobulin (1 microgram per bead) was used as the primary antibody, anti-adenovirus rabbit immunoglobulin (16 micrograms/ml) was used as the secondary antibody, and 125I-labeled sheep anti-rabbit immunogl...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical and laboratory data of children with acute gastroenteritis caused by non-typhoid Salmonella spp. infections. Clinical (demographic data, symptoms and findings) and laboratory data (stool microscopy, rapid antigen tests, culture, multiplex polymerase chain reaction and blood test results) of children with acute gastroenteritis caused by non-...

Background: Rapid urease test and stool antigen are both important diagnostic tools for the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection among peptic ulcer disease patients.
 Objective: The purpose present study was to compare capacity with by comparing rapid Methodology: This cross-sectional conducted in Department Clinical Pathology collaboration Gastroenterology at Bangabandhu Sheikh Muji...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine the viability of the commercial test currently used for detection of H. pylori antigens in the stool for detection of H. pylori antigens in dental plaque. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 164 dyspeptic patients entered the study; 95 H. pylori infected (positive result of at least 4 of 5 diagnostic tests: Campylobacter-like organisms test (CLO tes...

BACKGROUND Hemodialysis is the most common method of renal replacement therapy for treatment of acute and chronic kidney failure. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) plays a major role in development of peptic ulcer, gastric neoplasms, and lymphoma as well as increased risk of cardiovascular disorders in hemodialysis patients. OBJECTIVES In this study the diagnostic values of noninvasive tests [i...