Latex agglutination.
<p>Diagnostic performance of direct latex agglutination, post-enrichment latex agglutination and culture methods in screening of group B streptococci in late pregnancy: a comparative study</p>
... Methods: Two hundred pregnant women at gestational age (35 – 37 weeks) were enrolled. Three low vaginal swabs were obtained from each participant. One swab was directly inoculated into Strep B Select (SBS) agar. The ...
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Capsular Gene Typing of Streptococcus agalactiae Compared to Serotyping by Latex Agglutination
... is latex agglutination based on polyclonal antibodies specific for the 10 recognized cap- sular polysaccharides, ...by latex agglutination was evaluated by a sensitive flow cytometric analysis ...
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Detection of rotavirus in sewage and drinking water by Latex agglutination test
... The water samples for the present study were collected from sewage and suspected contaminated water sources. The number of samples for present study comprised of n=240 (n= 120 sewage water, n= 120 contaminated drinking ...
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Automatic and manual latex agglutination tests for measurement of cholera toxin and heat labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli
... M glycine-NaOH buffer This paper deals with automatic and manual Dow latex suspension inM0.05 8.2 containing 0.05 sodium chloride was mixed latex agglutination tests for cholera toxin CT[r] ...
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Bacteriophage Based Latex Agglutination Test for Rapid Identification of Staphylococcus aureus
... R apid identification of microbial pathogens improves patient management by providing an earlier basis for the choice of an optimal antimicrobial agent (1–3). This is of particular impor- tance in cases of acute and ...
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Evaluation of smooth lipopolysaccharide based latex agglutination test in serodiagnosis of brucellosis
... coated latex bead was prepared and their evaluation was done along with RBPT, commonly employed for the serodiagnosis of ...polystyrene latex beads in a phosphate buffer saline coating ...based latex ...
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Detection of Pneumococcal Capsular polysaccharide antigens by latex agglutination, counterimmunoelectrophoresis, and radioimmunoassay in middle ear exudates in acute otitis media
... Detection of Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide Antigens by Latex Agglutination, Counterimmunoelectrophoresis, and Radioimmunoassay in Middle Ear Exudates in Acute Otitis Media MAIJA K[r] ...
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Comparison of the latex agglutination test with the hemagglutination inhibition test, enzyme linked immunosorbent assay, and neutralization test for detection of antibodies to rubella virus
... Comparison of the Latex Agglutination Test with the Hemagglutination Inhibition Test, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, and Neutralization Test for Detection of Antibodies to Rubella Vi[r] ...
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Comparison of the PREMIER cryptococcal antigen enzyme immunoassay and the latex agglutination assay for detection of cryptococcal antigens
... A new enzyme immunoassay EIA, PREMIER Cryptococcal Antigen, was compared with latex agglutination LA for the detection and quantitation of circulating capsular polysaccharide antigen fro[r] ...
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Effects of Pretreating Serum Samples on the Performance of a Latex Agglutination Test for Serodiagnosis of Paracoccidioidomycosis
... a latex agglutination test (LAT) by pretreating 30 serum samples from PCM patients and 71 controls (histoplasmosis and aspergillosis patients, patients with bacte- rial infections, and normal human sera) ...
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Effect of Urine Latex Agglutination Tests on the Treatment of Children at Risk for Invasive Bacterial Infection
... Effect of Urine Latex Agglutination Tests on the Treatment of Children at Risk for. Services[r] ...
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Latex agglutination tests for measurement of antiplague antibodies
... The latex agglutination titers correlated well with those measured by the World Health Organization standard method of indirect hemagglutination, although there was a tendency for the fo[r] ...
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Simple, Rapid Latex Agglutination Test for Serotyping of Pneumococci (Pneumotest Latex)
... Pneumotest- Latex, we were able to serotype two isolates which we were not able to type before with the conventional capsular reaction test and which had been regarded as rough pneumococci or non- typeable ...the ...
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Methods for serotyping nasopharyngeal isolates of Haemophilus influenzae: slide agglutination, Quellung reaction, countercurrent immunoelectrophoresis, latex agglutination, and antiserum agar
... Methods for Serotyping Nasopharyngeal Isolates of Haemophilus influenzae: Slide Agglutination, Quellung Reaction, Countercurrent Immunoelectrophoresis, Latex Agglutination, and Antiserum[r] ...
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Comparison of latex agglutination and counterimmunoelectrophoresis for the detection of pneumococcal antigen in elderly pneumonia patients
... The increased detection of pneumococcal antigen in urine versus serum can be attributed to the lack of confounding serum antibodies, natural concentration of the antigen by the kidneys, [r] ...
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Serological grouping of meningococci and encapsulated Haemophilus influenzae strains by latex agglutination
... Many meningococcal strains from nasopharyngeal carriers are autoagglutinable, but some of these gave a positive reaction with the group B latex reagent, although they were negative by th[r] ...
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Evaluation of a latex agglutination test for Clostridium difficile in two nursing home outbreaks
... Compared with the cytotoxin assay of stool samples from the outbreak ward, the CDT sensitivity was 92%, the specificity was 89%, and the positive predictive value PPV; calculated as PPV [r] ...
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Development and Evaluation of a Latex Agglutination Test for the Serodiagnosis of Paracoccidioidomycosis
... Detection of antibodies by the ID and LA tests. Serum spec- imens from 51 cases of PCM and 95 controls, including 26 cases with fungal infection (HP, ASP), 20 cases of NHS, and 49 cases of nonfungal diseases were tested ...
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Comparison of staphylococcal coagglutination, latex agglutination, and counterimmunoelectrophoresis for bacterial antigen detection
... Soluble antigens of Haemophilus influenzae type b, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis, and group B streptococcus were looked for in cerebrospinal fluid, serum, and urine by[r] ...
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Detection of Rocky Mountain spotted fever antibodies by a latex agglutination test
... The test was evaluated with a total of 123 single and 118 paired human sera submitted for Rocky Mountain spotted fever testing.. This test is simple, sensitive, and specific.[r] ...
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