Serological Testing for COVID-19 Disease: Moving the Field of Serological Surveillance Forward

Serological Testing for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Covid-19 Serological Tests: A Journey from Denial of Reality to Conclusive Insights

In response to the outbreak of COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, several tests are needed for diagnosis of acute illness, contact tracking, diagnosis of asymptomatic infections, and assessment of herd immunity. While PCR is the standard test in acute type, serological tests have been developed and used to meet diagnostic needs due to the widespread prevalence of the disease. Unlike the...

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 ...

Guidelines for serological testing for syphilis.

Appropriate serological testing in pregnancy.

We read with interest the recent report by Garner et al. [l], in which anti-E was detected early in pregnancy solely through the use of enzymetreated red blood cells (RBC). The serological reactivity of this anti-E changed dramatically during pregnancy; the antibody became detectable by the indirect antiglobulin test, and at 37 weeks’ gestation had a titer of 512. Delivery at 40 weeks’ gestatio...