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Evaluación de pruebas inmunológicas en el diagnóstico de Giardia duodenalis y Cryptosporidium spp, Honduras
Evaluation of immunologic tests in the diagnosis of Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium spp., Honduras

Rev. méd. hondur; 90 (1), 2022
Antecedentes: No conocemos datos sobre evaluación de pruebas inmunológicas para mejorar el diagnóstico de Giardia duodenalis y Cryptosporidium spp., agentes etiológicos de diarrea de importancia mundial, en Honduras. Objetivos: Comparar dos pruebas inmunológicas para el diagnóstico de Giardia y Cry...

Dengue diagnostics: serious inaccuracies are likely to occur if pre-analytical conditions are not strictly followed

Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz; 115 (), 2020
BACKGROUND The heat-labile nature of Dengue virus (DENV) in serum samples must be considered when applying routine diagnostic tests to avoid issues that could impact the accuracy of test results with direct implications for case management and disease reporting. OBJECTIVES To check if pre-analytical v...

Cut-off values of immunological tests to identify patients at high risk of severe lupus nephritis

Medicina (B.Aires); 78 (5), 2018
Cut-off values for anti-dsDNA, anti-nucleosome and anti-C1q antibodies tests and for complement-mediated hemolytic activity (CH50) were explored to identify patients with high risk of developing severe lupus nephritis (LN). Forty-one patients with confirmed systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were identif...

Sensitivity, specificity and comparison of three commercially available immunological tests in the diagnosis of Cryptosporidium species in animals

Braz. j. microbiol; 49 (1), 2018
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to compare the specificity of immunological diagnostic methods used for the diagnosis of Cryptosporidium species capable of causing life-threatening infection in both immunosuppressed and immunocompetent patients. For the detection of Cryptosporidium species in 79 animals...

Isolation and identification of Mycobacterium bovis in bovines with positive reaction to the tuberculin test in the state of Paraíba, northeast Brazil

Arq. Inst. Biol; 85 (), 2018
In areas where human tuberculosis and bovine tuberculosis coexist, differentiation between M. bovis and M. tuberculosis is important for monitoring the spread of M. bovis among cattle and from cattle to humans. The objective of this study was to isolate and identify M. bovis in bovines with positive diag...

Laboratorio en reumatología

Rev. Méd. Clín. Condes; 23 (4), 2012
La reumatología es una subespecialidad de la medicina interna que estudia y trata pacientes con problemas músculo esqueléticos, así como también enfermedades autoinmunes que comprometen el mesenquima y diferentes órganos, teniendo en común un rol patogénico del sistema inmune. El laboratorio jueg...

Production of polyclonal antisera to manganese superoxide dismutase expressed in downy mildew resistant pearl millet and its application for immunodiagnosis

Level of superoxide dismutase (SOD) in the seedlings of downy mildew resistant pearl millet genotype (IP 18293) increased 3-fold upon inoculation with Sclerospora graminicola. Mn-SOD was purified from pearl millet by ion-exchange and gel filtration chromatography. Polyclonal antibody was raised in rabbit...