Latex agglutination test
Simple, Rapid Latex Agglutination Test for Serotyping of Pneumococci (Pneumotest Latex)
... reaction test for the time ...action test. The reason for this is that with the Pneumotest- Latex, we were able to serotype two isolates which we were not able to type before with the conventional ...
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Effects of Pretreating Serum Samples on the Performance of a Latex Agglutination Test for Serodiagnosis of Paracoccidioidomycosis
... double-immunodiffusion test (ID) is the “gold standard” test for serology in PCM, although the execution of this test re- quires the availability of laboratorial ...a latex ...
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Bacteriophage Based Latex Agglutination Test for Rapid Identification of Staphylococcus aureus
... streptavidin latex beads to develop a latex agglutination test ...bacteriophage-based test was compared with that of a conventional LAT, Pastorex Staph- Plus, by investigating a ...
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Evaluation of smooth lipopolysaccharide based latex agglutination test in serodiagnosis of brucellosis
... Plate Test (RBPT) was commonly used for the screening of ...based latex agglutination test (LAT) and compared with RBPT to evaluate the diagnostic potential of this purified sLPS antigen based ...
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Detection of rotavirus in sewage and drinking water by Latex agglutination test
... Latex agglutination test is simple, cost effective and a rapid technique to identify the quality of water with in short period of ...This test can be done easily in lab with no such highly ...
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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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Development and Evaluation of a Rapid Latex Agglutination Test Using a Monoclonal Antibody To Identify Candida dubliniensis Colonies
... dium, and (ii) colonies of C. dubliniensis do not fluoresce on methyl blue-Sabouraud agar under Wood’s light (27); how- ever, these two methods are not reproducible after subculture and storage (31). (iii) Unlike Candida ...
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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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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
... ID test. We believe that the format of the test and the patient’s immune status may have contributed to such ...the test, which means that new studies must be conducted in order to better evaluate ...
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Rapid diagnosis of rotavirus gastroenteritis by a commercial latex agglutination test
... We followed up 20 patients whose initial stool specimens were positive for rotavirus by all three tests but negative for bacterial pathogens or adenovirus to evaluate the performance of [r] ...
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Development of slide agglutination method for detection of Nosema mylitta in tasar silkworm using polyclonal antibody produced against proteins of pebrine spores
... Serological methods are being employed in the detection of pathogens. Some insights about the spore wall proteins of Nosema bombycis has been provided by Wu et al. (2008). Some efforts have been done to detection of ...
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Evaluation of latex Rickettsia rickettsii test for Rocky Mountain spotted fever in 11 laboratories
... Rocky Mountain spotted fever: first-year evaluation of a latex agglutination test for antibody to Rickettsia rickettsii, p.. Anacker ed., Rickettsiae and rickettsial diseases.[r] ...
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Evaluation of different methods for rapid diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis patients at tertiary care hospital
... by Latex agglutination test (LAT), cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) lateral flow immunochromatographic assay (LFA), we assessed diagnostic performance of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture, CrAg ...
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Serological study of toxoplasmosis spread among unmarried female university students using LAT, ELISA and IgG avidity Muna Turky AL- Mossawei|Hind Majeed AL- Mossawei| Khitam Yahya AL-Dujaily
... Toxoplasma gondii has a worldwide distribution and it is one of the most prevalent infectious agents in Iraq. The study was conducted on 200 serum samples of unmarried female university of students age ranged between 18 ...
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Role of stool screening tests in diagnosis of inflammatory bacterial enteritis and in selection of specimens likely to yield invasive enteric pathogens
... Campyslide latex agglutination test (Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems), spiral motility in a direct wet mount, a positive test for oxidase production, and appropriate Gram stain mor- ...
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Comparison of commercial kits for detection of cryptococcal antigen
... Therefore, we compared the sensitivities and specificities of five commercially available kits for detecting cryptococcal antigen four latex agglutination test kits-Calas [Meridian Diagn[r] ...
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Rapid Identification of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Blood Cultures by a Monoclonal Antibody Assay
... new agglutination pro- cedure with this MAb assay can be carried out before growing the bacteria on the primary ...and agglutination test could speed up the identification of the bacterium by at ...
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Streptococcus agalactiae in Brazil: serotype distribution, virulence determinants and antimicrobial susceptibility
... Serological grouping was performed using a commercial latex agglutination test, according to the manufacturer's Table 1 Serotype distribution of the 185 Streptococcus agalactiae isolates[r] ...
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Bacterial meningitis in children under 15 years of age in Nepal
... and the risk of false negative result is high because only a small number of microorganisms may be present in the specimens [13, 14]. An etiological diagnosis of bac- terial meningitis may be possible in less than 1 hour ...
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