IgG-Avidity
Prospective Study of Congenital Toxoplasmosis Screening with Use of IgG Avidity and Multiplex Nested PCR Methods
... using IgG avidity and multiplex nested PCR methods, we for the first time demonstrated an incidence of congenital toxoplasmosis ...low IgG avidity index, and we determined that the 51 women ...
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Use of an Anti Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) IgG Avidity Assay To Identify Recent HCV Infection
... low avidity are usually indicative of recent infection. Avidity assays have been developed for many viral infections (rubella virus, cyto- megalovirus, varicella-zoster virus, and HIV-1) (2, 6, 7, 10, ...
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Development of Fully Automated Determination of Marker Specific Immunoglobulin G (IgG) Avidity Based on the Avidity Competition Assay Format: Application for Abbott Architect Cytomegalovirus and Toxo IgG Avidity Assays
... the avidity of immunoglobulin G (IgG) directed against a specific marker has become an established diagnostic tool for identifying or excluding acute infections with ...the avidity of marker-specific ...
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Measles Virus IgG Avidity Assay for Use in Classification of Measles Vaccine Failure in Measles Elimination Settings
... measles IgG avidity and very high neutralization titers appear to correlate with SVF cases upon recent exposure to ...cases, avidity testing classified 10 as SVF and 5 as suspected ...
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Evaluation of the New Elecsys Toxo IgG Avidity Assay for Toxoplasmosis and New Insights into the Interpretation of Avidity Results
... low avidity values obtained with the Elecsys (⬍19%) or Architect (⬍17%) assays are associated with recent infections (onset less than 3 months and 2 months, ...assess avidity in these situations seems to be ...
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Role of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) IgG Avidity Testing in Diagnosing Primary CMV Infection during Pregnancy
... CMV IgG avidity testing for assessing the risk of intrauterine CMV transmission, there has been renewed discus- sion of the benefits of screening pregnant women for CMV anti- bodies (3, 9, ...CMV IgG ...
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Diagnosis of Acute Toxoplasmosis by IgG and IgM Antibodies and IgG Avidity in Pregnant Women from Mashhad, Eastern Iran
... and IgG avidity tests were performed using ...of IgG and IgM was ...and IgG level ...low avidity for IgG and 1 people (6.2%) with moderate avidity and 5 cases ...high ...
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European Multicenter Study of the LIAISON Automated Diagnostic System for Determination of Toxoplasma gondii Specific Immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM and the IgG Avidity Index
... The IgG avidity index is not standardized between labora- tories, and no external quality assurance program includes the Toxoplasma-specific IgG avidity ...the avidity-maturation curve ...
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Urea dilution of serum for reproducible anti HSV1 IgG avidity index
... as IgG-antigen interfering agent because the range of AI for assessed sera then extended below 50%, a potentially useful breakpoint value for future dichotomous classifi- cation of sera as high- or low ...
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Evaluation of the New Architect Cytomegalovirus Immunoglobulin M (IgM), IgG, and IgG Avidity Assays
... CMV IgG avid- ity assay has been shown to have this ...CMV IgG avidity improves the specificity of the diagnosis of a primary ...high avidity can be reassured that they have a low risk for in ...
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National Prevalence Estimates for Cytomegalovirus IgM and IgG Avidity and Association between High IgM Antibody Titer and Low IgG Avidity
... low IgG avidity in a nationally representative ...CMV IgG seroprevalence reported by Staras et ...high avidity and thus presumably from nonprimary CMV infection, which may be less associated ...
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Significance of IgG-Avidity in Antenatal Rubella Diagnosis.
... virus-specific IgG antibodies with a High IgG-Avidity Index; thus indicating the possibility of a reinfection in that ...high avidity antirubella ...
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Immunoglobulin M (IgM) Glycoinositolphospholipid Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay: an Immunoenzymatic Assay for Discrimination between Patients with Acute Toxoplasmosis and Those with Persistent Parasite Specific IgM Antibodies
... high-avidity IgG results were negative in the IgM-GIPL ...gondii-specific IgG and IgM serological tests (Table ...positive IgG and IgM serological tests, and 14 asymptomatic chronically ...
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False positive results in immunoglobulin M (IgM) toxoplasma antibody tests and importance of confirmatory testing: the Platelia Toxo IgM test
... The Platelia Toxo IgM test is a widely used commercial method for detection of toxoplasma IgM antibodies. We re- cently had the unique opportunity to perform serological stud- ies for toxoplasma antibodies on serum ...
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Detection of Immunoglobulin M Antibodies Specific for Toxoplasma gondii with Increased Selectivity for Recently Acquired Infections
... and avidity of toxoplasma IgG antibodies, have been ...the IgG avidity test. Comparison of IgG avidity test results between the PAMF ELISA and the BioPlex 2200 toxoplasma ...
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Pattern of the Epitope-Specific IgG/IgM Response against Human Cytomegalovirus in Patients with Multiple Myeloma
... of IgG avidity.In the test for IgG avidity, the intensities of the corresponding bands on the two test strips (IgG strip and avidity strip) incubated with the same serum sample were ...
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Development and validation of an Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) test for the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in Sri Lanka
... of IgG is effective since it appears in very low concen- tration during the first few weeks of infection and peaks only after 12 weeks to 6 months and remains throughout life ...The IgG antibody ...
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Comparison of Four Commercially Available Avidity Tests for Toxoplasma gondii-Specific IgG Antibodies
... and IgG antibodies against Toxoplasma ...the IgG avidity test is a rapid means of identifying latent infections in pregnant women who exhibit both IgG and IgM anti-Toxoplasma antibodies on ...
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Use of an Immunoglobulin G Avidity Assay Based on Recombinant Antigens for Diagnosis of Primary Toxoplasma gondii Infection during Pregnancy
... The avidity assay with recombinant antigen ...the IgG avidity indexes for individual recombinant antigens tested as single protein products and as a homogeneous ...mean avidity of ...between ...
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Impact of Spiramycin Treatment and Gestational Age on Maturation of Toxoplasma gondii Immunoglobulin G Avidity in Pregnant Women
... (IgG) avidity after Toxoplasma gondii seroconversion during pregnancy and the factors that affect IgG avidity over ...of IgG avidity throughout gestation. The IgG ...
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