Quantitative serological antibody testing for suspected neuroborreliosis

Suspected early Lyme neuroborreliosis in patients with erythema migrans.

BACKGROUND Our objective was to obtain data on patients with erythema migrans (EM) who have symptoms/signs suggesting nervous system involvement and to compare epidemiologic, clinical, and microbiologic findings in patients with and without cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pleocytosis. METHODS Adult patients with EM and suspected early Lyme neuroborreliosis were included in this study. RESULTS Of ...

Serological survey of sheep in Iran for Type specific Antibody to Bluetongue virus

Indirect fluorescent-antibody and quantitative agar-gel immunodiffusion tests for the serological diagnosis of paracoccidioidomycosis.

The value of various serological tests in the diagnosis of paracoccidioidomycosis was studied. Quantitative agar-gel immunodiffusion and indirect immunofluorescent tests were performed, and the results were compared with those of complement fixation and qualitative agar-gel procedures. The quantitative immunodiffusion procedure was found to serve as the simplest and safest quantitative test tha...

Serological testing in a microbiology laboratory of specimens from patients with suspected infectious disease.

AIMS To determine how the microbiology laboratories of one region process serological requests from patients with suspected infectious illness, referred to as "clinical syndrome" type patients in this study; to consider areas where improvement in the associated serology service could be made. METHODS A prospective two month collection of data on all serological requests from patients with sus...

Guidelines for serological testing for syphilis

Although we may wish it were not so, syphilis, like the poor, will always be with us—at least for the foreseeable future. The levels of both are determined to a large extent, by political instability and socioeconomic deprivation. Overall, the incidence of syphilis is low in Western Europe (approximately 0.3 cases/ 100 000 in England in 1998) although it has reached epidemic proportions in the ...