BACKGROUND Since artesunate (ART) became a vital component of artemisinin (ARM)-based combination therapies for the treatment for malaria, counterfeit ART drugs have spread in regions of Southeast Asia and Africa. The consumption of counterfeit ART drugs has resulted in the death of many patients. Thus, evaluating the quality of ART drugs is needed. There are several methods for quantitating th...

background: cholera, an infectious disease caused by vibrio cholerae , is primarily transmitted by ingestion of contaminated food or water. in severe cases, cholera may lead to severe dehydration, metabolic acidosis, and ultimately, hypovolemic shock and death.   methods: in this study v.cholerae non-o1 was cultured in suitable media. lps was extracted from the surface of  bacteria by hot pheno...

an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using a homologous combination of antiserum raised against testosterone-3-0-carboxymethyloxime-bovine serum albumin (t-3-0-cmo-bsa ) and penicillinase-labelled t-3-0-cmo was developed. this assay was utilized to measure testosterone in serum samples of male and female subjects. the sensitivity of the assay is 50pg/well and the antibody developed crossreacted...

A new polyclonal antiserum against spinach CF1 subunit delta was produced in rabbits. It decorates only one band at 21 kDa in Western immunoblots of thylakoid proteins and does not react in ELISA with delta-free four subunit CF1(-delta); therefore it is regarded monospecific. The polypeptide used as immunogen had been purified by HPLC. Earlier antisera against CF1 delta cross-react with CF1 sub...

Rabbit antisera evoked by type 5 streptococcal M protein (M5) were screened by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for immunological cross-reactivity with purified rabbit muscle phosphorylases a and b. Of 10 pep M5 antisera tested, 3 showed significant cross-reactivity with both forms of the enzyme. ELISA inhibition studies using one of the pep M5 antisera showed that all of the phosphory...

This study describes the isolation of a Toxocara canis species-specific excretory-secretory (ES) antigen and the development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on this antigen. Analysis of the ES antigens of T. canis, Toxocara vitulorum, Ascaris lumbricoides and Necator americanus larval antigen was performed by SDS-PAGE followed by western blotting. A 57 kDa T. canis-specifi...

The Ixodes holocyclus tick causes paralysis in up to 10,000 companion and domestic animals each year in Australia. Treatment requires the removal of the parasite and the administration of a commercial tick antiserum that is prepared from hyperimmune dogs. Each batch of this serum is initially tested for toxin-neutralising potency in a mouse bioassay that is expensive, time consuming, and subjec...

We previously described a reverse transcriptase-PCR using flavivirus genus-conserved and virus species-specific amplimers (D. W. Trent and G. J. Chang, p. 355-371, in Y. Becker and C. Darai; ed., Frontiers of Virology, vol. 1, 1992). Target amplification was improved by redesigning the amplimers, and a sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) technique has been developed to detect am...

Outbreaks of the southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus (SRBSDV) have caused significant crop losses in southern China in recent years, especially in 2010. There are no effective, quick and practicable methods for the diagnosis of rice dwarf disease that can be used in the field. Traditional reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) methodology is accurate but requires expensiv...

NADH:nitrate reductase was extracted from corn leaves (Zea mays L. W64A x W182E) and purified on blue Sepharose. After the nitrate reductase was further purified by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, it was used to immunize mice and a rabbit. Western blots of crude leaf extracts were used to demonstrate monospecificity of the mouse ascitic fluids and the rabbit antiserum. The electrophoretic p...