Different formatsthe indirect ELISAs with either peptide or the E7 whole protein as antigens and the more recent GST-E7 capture ELISA have been employed in sero-epidemiological studies for the determination of HPV infection. Further, several studies have attempted to correlate seroprevalence with prognosis and/or early diagnosis of cancer. This study compares the efficacy of ELISA in sero-detec...

During a one year period from August 1992 to August 1993, 272 injecting drug users attending the National Drug Treatment Centre were tested for antibody to Hepatitis C Virus with a second generation EIA test. The overall sero-prevalence was 84% (N = 229). A significantly greater proportion of females tested positive than males (Female: Male, 94% v 80%, p < 0.012). Looking at sero-prevalence of ...

Lyme Disease is caused by the bacterial pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi, and is transmitted by the tick-vector Ixodes scapularis. It is the most prevalent arthropod-borne disease in the United States. To determine the seroprevalence of B. burgdorferi antibodies in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from Texas, we analyzed serum samples (n = 1493) collected during the 2001-2015 hunting sea...

BACKGROUND Many studies have reported factors associated with HIV status disclosure among People Living With HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) but very few were conducted among PLWHA receiving ART. In Togo, no study on HIV status disclosure to sexual partners has been conducted among PLWHA on ART yet. We sought to document factors associated with HIV status disclosure among PLWHA receiving ART at Sokodé reg...

background: the aim of this study was to conduct a sero-epidemiological survey in meshkinshahr, ardabil province, northwestern iran to detect the rate of hydatidosis in the city and nearby villages. literature shows that no such study has been conducted so far. methods: overall, 670 serum samples were collected from 194 males and 476 females from patients referred to different health centers of...

Residents of urban slums suffer from a high burden zoonotic diseases due to individual, socioeconomic, and environmental factors. We conducted cross-sectional sero-survey in four Salvador, Brazil, characterize how poverty sanitation contribute the transmission rat-borne leptospirosis. Sero-prevalence 1,318 participants ranged between 10.0 13.3%. found that contact with sources contamination, ra...

Importance: Carrying out this sero-epidemiological study on the COVID-19 pandemic will make it possible to know extent of SARSCoV- 2 infection in Cape Verdean population and its current dynamics Verde.

BACKGROUND Ethiopian livestock production and productivity is still very low due to widespread of diseases. Among the diseases, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an extremely contagious and acute viral disease that causes significant economic problems in the country. A cross sectional study design was conducted from September 2015 to May 2016 to isolate and characterize FMD virus from outbreak ca...

The erythrocyte sedimentation rate was studied in 520 men and 202 women with syphilis. It was raised in 66-6 per cent. of sero-negative primary cases, 80 per cent. of sero-positive cases, 100 per cent. of secondary cases, 80 per cent. of early latent cases, and 73-9 per cent. of late latent cases. It was also raised in sixteen out of seventeen cases of neurosyphilis and in all eleven cases of c...

Two enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for the diagnosis of bovine virus diarrhoea (BVD) are described: CHEKIT-BVD-VIRUS and CHEKIT-BVD-SERO. The first test detects virus antigen in leucocytes, resulting in identification of persistently-infected animals, while the second detects antibodies to BVD virus (BVDV). It is well known that even persistently-infected animals may have antibodie...