The anti-complement immunofluorescence (ACIF) technique was evaluated for the diagnosis of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in a group of sera derived from renal transplant recipients and donors by comparing it with the indirect immunofluorescence (FA) and complement fixation (CF) TESTS. The ACIF and FA tests yielded similar results. However, the ACIF test had a distinct advantage over the...

A case of measles meningoencephalitis is described. Measles virus was isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid cells, in which virus antigen was also detected by indirect immunofluorescence.

It is six years since a leader in the Annals reviewed the performance of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) in clinical practice.' At that time there was increasing confidence in the value of ANCA testing in the diagnosis ofWegener's granulomatosis and related primary vasculitides. Sensitivity of cANCA for Wegener's granulo-matosis was reported as 500/o-96% and specificity was 900/o-1...

The prevalence of Taiwan monkeys with antibodies to Epstein-Barr virus, as detected by the indirect immunofluorescence technique, was lower than that of healthy persons in Taiwan.

TESA blot was compared with indirect hemagglutination, indirect immunofluorescence and ELISA tests. In sera from 30 participants infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, and in 30 non infected the four techniques produced entirely equivalent results, all positive and all negative, respectively. In cases admitted to be inconclusive or in visceral leishmaniasis, frequent false positives were detected. Ho...