EIA, enzyme immunoassay
Comparison of Premier CAMPY Enzyme Immunoassay (EIA), ProSpecT Campylobacter EIA, and ImmunoCard STAT! CAMPY Tests with Culture for Laboratory Diagnosis of Campylobacter Enteric Infections
... A total of 485 stool specimens (127 culture positive and 358 culture negative) were tested by both the Premier CAMPY and the ProSpecT Campylobacter microplate EIA, while a subset of 300 stool specimens (127 ...
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Effective Detection of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile by a Two Step Algorithm Including Tests for Antigen and Cytotoxin
... FIG. 1. Flow chart for two-step testing algorithm to detect toxigenic C. difficile. Ag-EIA, enzyme immunoassay for glutamate dehydrogenase antigen; CCNA, concurrent cell culture cytotoxicity ...
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Acute human bocavirus 1 infection in child with life threatening bilateral bronchiolitis and right sided pneumonia: a case report
... protein; EIA: Enzyme immunoassay; HBoV1: Human bocavirus 1; HBoV2: Human bocavirus 2; HBoV3: Human bocavirus 3; Ig: Immunoglobulin; LRTI: Lower respiratory tract infection; mRNA: Messenger ...
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Incidence and mortality rates of varicella among end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients in Singapore General Hospital, a 12 year review
... disease; EIA: enzyme immunoassay; ESRD: end stage renal disease; ESRF: end stage renal failure; GFR: glomerular filtration rate; HD: haemodialysis; HDU: high dependency unit; IBM: International ...
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Aspergillus Galactomannan Enzyme Immunoassay and Quantitative PCR for Diagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis with Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
... Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality among hematopoietic stem cell trans- plant (HSCT) patients. Diagnosis currently relies on cultiva- tion of Aspergillus species from ...
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The Brief Case: A 10 Year Old Girl with Meningoencephalitis
... capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (MAC-ELISA) for SLE, EEE, and WEE, all of which were negative, suggesting nonspecific staining by ...IgM enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for Powassan virus ...
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Reverse transcription PCR detection of LaCrosse virus in mosquitoes and comparison with enzyme immunoassay and virus isolation
... Enzyme immunoassay EIA is a sensitive, specific, and rapid technique for the detection of viral antigens in mosquito pools even in the absence of infectious virus 7-10, 14, 17.. In addit[r] ...
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Enzyme immunoassay versus plaque neutralization and other methods for determination of immune status to measles and varicella zoster viruses and versus complement fixation for serodiagnosis of infections with those viruses
... Results by an enzyme immunoassay method EIA performed at one serum dilution and results by indirect immunofluorescence IFA and hemagglutination inhibition HI tests performed at step dilu[r] ...
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Comparison of the Clinical Performance of PapilloCheck Human Papillomavirus Detection with That of the GP5+/6+ PCR Enzyme Immunoassay in Population Based Cervical Screening
... Statistical analysis. The result of the PapilloCheck assay was initially consid- ered hrHPV positive when genotyping revealed 1 or more of the 17 (probably) hrHPV genotypes described by Munoz et al. (15). For further ...
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Quantitative detection of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antigen by the Enzymun Test: comparison with alternative assays and nucleic acid sequence based amplification of HIV type 1 RNA
... automated enzyme immunoassay (EIA) (Enzymun-Test HIV Ag; Boehringer Mannheim) for quantitative human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antigen detection was evaluated by testing a panel of 1,506 serum ...
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Utility of quantitative enzyme immunoassay reactivity for predicting human immunodeficiency virus seropositivity in low and high prevalence populations
... To assess the utility of quantitative enzyme immunoassay EIA reactivity for predicting human immunodeficiency virus seropositivity, we evaluated 22,823 serum samples from homo- and bisex[r] ...
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Immunodiagnosis of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis by Using Culture Derived Human Isolates
... (IFA), enzyme immunoassay (EIA), and Western immunoblotting (WB) using HL-60 cell culture-derived human ...and EIA, and these samples were reactive when analyzed by immunoblot ...IFA, ...
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Clostridium difficile infection in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: first isolation and review of the literature
... Toxin enzyme immunoassay (EIA) tests alone, as used in two of these studies [12, 13], have a lower sensitivity compared to EIA paired with PCR [14, ...
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“Urinary Collagen Type IV Levels in Type II Diabetic Nephropathy Syrian Patients” by Deemah Awwad, Adnan Al-Sabbagh, Faizeh Al-Quobaili, Syria.
... by enzyme immunoassay (EIA) in 25 normal subjects and in 139 type II diabetic patients, with various degrees of urinary albumin excretion rate:(normoalbuminuric, microalbuminuric and ...
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Monoclonal antibodies against Candida tropicalis mannan: antigen detection by enzyme immunoassay and immunofluorescence
... Three strains of mice were immunized with Candida tropicalis cell walls, and antibodies against mannan were detected by indirect enzyme immunoassay EIA in 3 of 9 BALB/c mice, 4 of 11 C57[r] ...
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DETECTION OF PORIN ANTIGEN IN SERUM FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF TYPHOID INFECTION
... An enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for detection of serum antibodies in patients with typhoid fever is developed using Salmonella typhi outer membrane protein (OMP) preparations as ...
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Antigen requirements, sensitivity, and specificity of enzyme immunoassays for measles and rubella viral antibodies
... Enzyme immunoassay EIA systems for measles virus and rubella virus were studied from the standpoints of requirements for suitable viral antigens and control antigens, and the sensitivity[r] ...
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Strategy for Diagnosis of Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Evaluation of Methods Comparing Mothers and Newborns and Standard Methods for Postnatal Detection of Immunoglobulin G, M, and A Antibodies
... the enzyme-linked immunofiltration assay (ELIFA) or Immunoblotting (IB) for the detection of IgG or IgM; these methods allowed comparison of the immunologic profiles of the mothers and the ...commercial ...
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Detection of Specific Autoantibodies in Sera with Negative Antinuclear Antibody by Indirect Immunofluorescence Assay but Positive by Enzyme Immunoassay
... one EIA kit that uses HeLa cell nuclear extract, which may be different from other EIA kits that use different combinations of defined native or recombinant ...
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Correlation between Clostridium difficile Bacterial Load, Commercial Real Time PCR Cycle Thresholds, and Results of Diagnostic Tests Based on Enzyme Immunoassay and Cell Culture Cytotoxicity Assay
... contrast, enzyme immunoassays (EIA) detecting toxins A and/or B (ToxAB) are technically simpler but are usually much less sensitive (3, ...an EIA test for glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), a more ...
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