identification of acid-fast bacilli (afb) in sputum or tissue samples is among definite diagnostic methods of tuberculosis. however, this method of diagnosis is restricted by certain limitations.   serologic diagnosis of tuberculosis (tb) has been used for a long time. the aim of this study was to determine the sensitivity and , specificity of antigen 60 (a60) igg, iga, igm test results in tb d...

Sir, Mycobacteria are known to have several immunologically active antigenic components like 38 Kd antigen, 30 Kd antigen, 16 Kd antigen, A60 antigen and lipoarabinomannan (LAM). 1 The MycoDot test is a new simple, rapid (20 minutes) and reliable serodiagnostic technique that can detect antimycobacterial antibodies in the serum or blood. It offers a low cost, single visit aid in the diagnosis o...

A60, the mouse monoclonal antibody against the neuronal nuclear protein (NeuN), is the most widely used neuronal marker in neuroscience research and neuropathological assays. Previous studies identified fragments of A60-immunoprecipitated protein as Synapsin I (Syn I), suggesting the antibody will demonstrate cross immunoreactivity. However, the likelihood of cross reactivity has never been ver...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum samples from eight patients with bacteriologically proven (6) or clinically suspected (2) tuberculous meningitis were tested for the presence of anti-mycobacterial IgG antibodies by an affinity-mediated immunoblot technique. This technique is based on agarose gel isoelectric focusing of paired CSF and serum samples diluted to the same IgG concentration, and t...

Activated carbon has a high adsorption capacity due to its porosity. The pore structure of activated is largely affected by the chemical composition raw material and parameters manufacturing process. This article aims determine from brewed coffee. manufacture carried out in one step carbonization activation same reactor furnace. sample was carbonized heating temperature 650 ○C, then immediately...

We have prospectively analyzed three antigens for serodiagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). These antigens were tuberculous glycolipid antigen, lypoarabinomannan polysaccharide antigen, and antigen 60 (A60), which was derived from purified protein derivatives. Of the 131 patients with active pulmonary TB, 57 were both smear and culture negative and 14 had chronic active pulmonary TB that remained sme...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to compare the image quality and radiation dose of chest CT images reconstructed with a blend of adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR) and filtered back-projection (FBP) with images generated using conventional FBP. METHODS Patients with chest CT re-examinations were alternately assigned to two scanners with different reconstruction te...