OBJECTIVE To address the questions and challenges commonly faced by primary care physicians when ordering serologic tests for celiac disease (CD) and provide practical clinical tips to help in the interpretation of test results. SOURCES OF INFORMATION MEDLINE was searched from 2000 to 2015 for English-language guidelines on the diagnosis and management of CD published by professional gastroen...

background: syphilis is an infectious disease caused by treponema pallidum and transmitted via sexual contact, infected discharge and blood as well as vertical transmission. it causes various impacts on women during pregnancy and their newborns which results in various complications. thus, screening of syphilis is routinely performed during pregnancy. choosing to perform a specific screening te...

BACKGROUND Serologic methods have been used widely to test for celiac disease and have gained importance in diagnostic definition and in new epidemiologic findings. However, there is no standardization, and there are no reference protocols and materials. METHODS The European working group on Serological Screening for Celiac Disease has defined robust noncommercial test protocols for immunoglo...

A 50-year-old women presented with a 2-month history of sore throat and whitish oral lesions. She also complained of an asymptomatic ulcerative lesion on the labia majora, which had appeared 6 months previously and spontaneously disappeared after 1 month. Her past medical and dermatological histories were unremarkable. The oral examination revealed several serpiginous whitish oral mucous patche...

BACKGROUND Rheumatic symptoms were commonly described among soldiers who served in previous wars. OBJECTIVE To describe the frequency of rheumatology consultations, along with the diagnoses, and abnormal results on serologic testing in Gulf War veterans evaluated for Gulf War syndrome. METHODS The medical records of the first 250 consecutive Gulf War veterans referred to the comprehensive c...

conclusions: it was concluded that the elisa is a suitable method for large scale screening of antibodies against aspergilloma. the easy techniques have shortened the required time of tests (approximately 1.30 hours for our elisa, as opposed to 2.30 hours with commercial elisa kit). this may be a substantial benefit for large numbers of samples that should be tested. materials and methods: an i...

Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can infect many animal species, including minks, cats, and dogs. To gain insights into SARS-CoV-2 infections in cats dogs, we developed validated a set of serologic assays, ELISA virus neutralization. Evaluation samples from animals before they acquired disease roaming SARS-CoV-2–positive mink farms confirmed the suitability ...