The minimum requirements for red cell serological testing

Electronic Nose Testing Procedure for the Definition of Minimum Performance Requirements for Environmental Odor Monitoring

Despite initial enthusiasm towards electronic noses and their possible application in different fields, and quite a lot of promising results, several criticalities emerge from most published research studies, and, as a matter of fact, the diffusion of electronic noses in real-life applications is still very limited. In general, a first step towards large-scale-diffusion of an analysis method, i...

minimum requirements for reporting fecal microbiota transplant trial

fecal microbiota transplant (fmt) research trials are growing in diverse intestinal and extraintestinal conditions that are thought to be either caused or correlated with gut microbiota dysbiosis. although, the mechanism by which the microbiota results in disease initiation or progression is not fully understood, it is speculated that restoring the symbiosis by fmt could have therapeutic benefits.

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.

Red cell immunology and compatibility testing

Introduction Immunohematology is the study of the immune response to blood cells. This chapter reviews the basic concepts of immunity as they apply to production of antibodies to red blood cells (RBCs), also called atypical alloantibodies. Antibodies to platelets and neutrophils, as well as autoantibodies and drug-induced antibodies, are discussed elsewhere. The relevance of immunohematology to...