Cat. No. 600030 30 Tests 600100 100 Tests 600500 500 Tests CPT Code: 86762 1 INTENDED USE: The ASI Rubella Test is a rapid latex particle agglutination test for the qualitative and semiquantitative determination of rubella virus antibodies in serum. The test aids in the diagnosis of recent or active rubella infection and in the determination of immune status. These materials are intended to be ...

Measles or rubella is an infectious viral disease that a public health problem globally. Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) in infants caused by infection of the fetus with virus during pregnancy. CRS therapy can be done today giving vaccination to children, adolescents, and adult women. To determine effectiveness vaccine preventing controlling cases, article review was carried out literature st...

OBJECTIVE A descriptive study was carried out to determine the significance of IgG-affinity in the serological diagnosis of rubella infections in pregnancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 92 pregnant women who had never received antirubella vaccines were recruited by simple random selection and did not exceed 24 weeks of gestation were recruited from the antenatal clinics of the University ...

In 1995-96 we conducted a review of rubella immunization strategies. Worldwide, 78 countries (more than one-third) reported a national policy of using rubella vaccine. This was closely related to country economic status. Based on the United Nations country classification, rubella vaccine is used in 92% of industrialized countries, 36% of those with economies-in-transition, and 28% of developing...

BACKGROUND Control of rubella infection is essential for preventing congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) and one of the important steps is to define a target population for vaccination. Therefore this study was done to determine serological evidence of acute rubella infection among under-fives in order to anticipate the magnitude of rubella virus transmission in Tanzania. METHODS A cross-section...

Worldwide, it is estimated that there are more than 100.000 infants born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) each year. In 1998, standard case definitions for surveillance of CRS and rubella were developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2001, 123 countries/territories reported a total of 836.356 rubella cases. In the future more countries are expected to report on rubella as a gl...

Garcia, A. G. P., Olinto, F., and Fortes, T. G. 0. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 181. Thymic hypoplasia due to congenital rubella. Two cases of rubella embryopathy are presented. In both, hypoplasia of the thymus and of the thymus-dependent lymphoid tissue was conspicuous. Vascular lesions identical with those described in the congenital rubella syndrome were present in the thym...

Rubella virus nonstructural proteins, translated from input genomic RNA as a p200 polyprotein and subsequently processed into p150 and p90 by an intrinsic papain-like thiol protease, are responsible for virus replication. To examine the effect of p200 processing on virus replication and to study the roles of nonstructural proteins in viral RNA synthesis, we introduced into a rubella virus infec...

Prevalence of anti Rubella antibodies was determined using ELISA technique. Seventy seven percent pregnant and 51% pre-pubertal females showed evidence of immunity against rubella while 23% pregnant females were susceptible to rubella infection. There is a need to start rubella immunization programme for girls, to lower the incidence of congenital Rubella (JPMA 37: 6, 1987).

An immunoglobulin G (IgG)-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for rubella virus is described. The assay uses a fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-anti-FITC amplification system. The detection limit of the ELISA was approximately 7 IU of rubella virus-specific IgG per ml of serum sample. For saliva samples the performances of the capture ELISA and previously described radioimmunoass...