Antibody avidity
Use of Immunoglobulin G Antibody Avidity for Differentiation of Primary Human Herpesvirus 6 and 7 Infections
... low-avidity antibody was de- tected for one virus only and the individual either was sero- negative or, more usually, had high-avidity antibody to the other virus, but in a few patients, ...
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Anti-Leishmania infantum IgG Antibody Avidity in Visceral Leishmaniasis
... IgG antibody avidity. A predominance of low-avidity antibodies was observed in the first subgroup, similar to the case for subjects receiving treatment, whereas avidity increased over time in ...
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Antibody Avidity in Humoral Immune Responses in Bangladeshi Children and Adults following Administration of an Oral Killed Cholera Vaccine
... LPS-specific antibody avidity in child and adult ...IgA antibody avidity index (AI) values using a previously described method (15, ...IgA antibody responses as described ...the ...
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Antibody Avidity Testing to identify recent infection among the newly diagnosed HIV-1 infected individuals and the effect of Antiretroviral Therapy on the Avidity Antibodies: A Pilot study
... of antibody avidity in 13 individuals with symptomatic primary HIV ...The avidity index and western blot patterns was analyzed on plasma/ serum sample for one ...diagnosis avidity index was ...
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Viral Persistence Induces Antibody Inflation without Altering Antibody Avidity
... and antibody avidity ...MCMV-specific antibody levels were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) as described previously (15), with minor ...
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Immunoglobulin G antibody avidity in patients with respiratory syncytial virus infection
... The titer and avidity of respiratory syncytial virus-specific antibodies were measured in 196 serum specimens from 93 children with an acute, laboratory-confirmed respiratory syncytial v[r] ...
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Changes in antibody avidity after virus infections: detection by an immunosorbent assay in which a mild protein denaturing agent is employed
... This report describes the results in three kinds of virus infections: i experimental infection of guinea pigs with Japanese encephalitis JE virus, ii rotavirus infection of infants, and [r] ...
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TACI deficiency enhances antibody avidity and clearance of an intestinal pathogen
... on avidity of anti-intimin antibodies in mice infected repeatedly with ...the avidity of anti-intimin antibodies in serum was determined by the concentration of intimin needed to reduce the concentration of ...
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Concentration and High Avidity of Pneumococcal Antibodies Persist at Least 4 Years after Immunization with Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Infancy
... 19F. Avidity was measured by the thiocyanate elution assay (27), with minor ...EIA. Avidity was expressed as an avidity index (AI) corresponding to the molar concentra- tion of sodium thiocyanate ...
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Changes in Avidity and Level of Immunoglobulin G Antibodies to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Sera of Patients Undergoing Treatment for Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... and avidity during ...examined antibody levels or avidity during treatment, several phenomena were observed in the majority of ...in antibody levels in the first 3 months of therapy, and in ...
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Isolation and characterization of a mutant liver aldolase in adult hereditary fructose intolerance Identification of the enzyme variant by radioassay in tissue biopsy specimens
... Displacement radioimmunotitration of aldolase B in liver supernatants showed a significant P < 0.005 decrease in antibody avidity for immunoreactive protein in HFI tissue when compared w[r] ...
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Avidity of the Immunoglobulin G Response to a Neisseria meningitidis Group C Polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccine as Measured by Inhibition and Chaotropic Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays
... Chaotropic ELISA for determining MnC PS-specific antibody avidity indices. The chaotropic ELISA using ammonium thiocyanate for determining AIs for MnC PS-specific antibodies has been described elsewhere ...
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Avidity of anti malarial antibodies inversely related to transmission intensity at three sites in Uganda
... high avidity anti- bodies. Avidity was measured to MSP1-19 and AMA-1 antigens in 581 and 1029 individuals respectively encom- passing a wide range of ages, from three sites in Uganda with transmission ...
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Functional Antibody Activity Elicited by Fractional Doses ofHaemophilus influenzae Type b Conjugate Vaccine (Polyribosylribitol Phosphate–Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate)
... (IgG) antibody avidity indices, using sodium thiocyanate (NaSCN) elution, elicited after vaccination with fractional doses of the Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate (polyribosylribitol phosphate [PRP] ...
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Immunologic Response to Haemophilus influenzae Type b (Hib) Conjugate Vaccine and Risk Factors for Carriage among Hib Carriers and Noncarriers in Southwestern Alaska
... shown). Antibody concentrations were also similar to those seen at comparable intervals after vacci- nation in previous studies in Alaska (7) as well as other parts of the United States (22, 32) and in Europe (18, ...
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Immune response to pneumococcal polysaccharides 4 and 14 in elderly and young adults. I Antibody concentrations, avidity and functional activity
... of antibody concentration by ELISA without reduction in cross-reactive antibodies causes an overestimation of antibody concentration and therefore protection, this is most notable in the aged, an at risk ...
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High Throughput Multiplex Serological Testing in Microbiology
... Using antibody avidity and pattern of reactivity to whole virus and nonstructural protein, antibodies due to vaccination and infection, respectively, as well as probable degree of protection, can be ...
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Isolation and characterization of human polyreactive pneumococcal polysaccharide antibodies
... low antibody avidity, all polyreactive antibodies tested had high opsonophagocytic activity and induced opsonization of both serotypes, PPS14 and PPS23F (Figure 2) suggest- ing they are not only ...
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Maturation of the cellular and humoral immune responses to persistent infection in horses by equine infectious anemia virus is a complex and lengthy process.
... in antibody avidity to envelope glycoprotein was due to the com- plex nature of the highly glycosylated envelope antigen or to the nature of the lentivirus infection, the avidity of antibodies to the ...
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Development and validation of an Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) test for the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in Sri Lanka
... IgG antibody avidity test detects the IgG in the blood and it is very useful to identify a recent infection ...IgG avidity index shifts from low to high within 5 months of ...low avidity index ...
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