Rubella screening tests.

A comparison of three tests for rubella antibody screening.

Sera from 1000 women attending antenatal clinics were screened for the presence of rubella antibody by haemagglutination inhibition (HI), single radial haemolysis (SRH), and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). With 925 sera concordant results were obtained with all three tests. There were 46 false-negative HI tests due to the necessity of allowing for residual non-specific inhibitors. Wi...

Review of Autism Screening Tests

Background: Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that onset in the first 3 years of life and led to lifelong disability.Despite the early onset of symptoms, diagnosis of thissyndromedoes not happenuntil severalyears later, somany childrenlosethe opportunityfor earlyintervention.There arevarious toolsforscreening anddiagnosis, buttheirdesign, strengths and weaknesses aredifferent. The aim of ...

Rubella screening and immunisation of Army recruits.

Copies of Rubella Screening reports for QARANC and WRAC personnel recruited between 1976 and 1980 were analysed. With the exception of WRAC servicewomen, insufficient numbers were screened to be statistically significant until 1980 when 93.1 % were successfully screened. 108 seronegative cases in 1980 were identified and a postal questionnaire was used to evaluate the efficiency of follow up im...

Evaluation of rubella screening in pregnant women.

BACKGROUND The rationale for rubella vaccination in the general population and for screening for rubella in pregnant women is the prevention of congenital rubella syndrome. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the prenatal rubella screening program in Quebec. METHODS A historical cross-sectional study was designed. Sixteen hospitals with obstetric services were ran...

Screening tests.