Extensive testing of modern communicating systems often involve large and complex test suites that need to be maintained throughout the life cycle of the tested system. For this purpose, quality assurance of test suites is an inevitable task that eventually has an impact on the quality of the system under test as well. In this work, we present a means to analyze response inconsistencies in test...

ige- mediated food allergy affects 6-8% of children. our study aimed to define the correlations between the results obtained with skin prick tests (spts) using commercial extracts and fresh foods, and the correlations between these result and those obtained with specific ige (sige) and/ or challenge. children aged from 2 months to 6 years were recruited prospectively. overall 571 children were ...

Studies were conducted to determine a disease outbreak in 14 day old post-larvae of abalone (Haliotis diversicolor supertexta) which caused mass mortality in July 2010 in Shanwei, China. Twenty-nine bacterial strains were isolated from a sample pool of 10 diseased post-larval abalones on 2216E marine agar plates during a natural outbreak of the disease. Among them, a dominant isolate (referred ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Validation of test-shortening procedures for the 2-min tidal breathing methacholine challenge method. DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Tertiary-care university clinical pulmonary function laboratory. PATIENTS One thousand subjects aged 10 to 85 years (mean +/- SD, 44.5 +/- 16.0 years), 44.5% male, referred for methacholine challenge. INTERVENTION Two-minute ti...

BACKGROUND To reduce the number of patients needing oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), screening options have been considered, balancing patient comfort, cost and risk of missed diagnosis. Australian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS) recommends glucose challenge test (GCT) as screening for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), while others suggest fasting plasma glucose (FPG). International...

BACKGROUND Blepharospasm is typically diagnosed by excluding any secondary diseases and neuropsychiatric disorders, as specific tests for blepharospasm are currently unavailable. Since anticholinergic agents are used to improve the symptoms of dystonia, we hypothesized that edrophonium chloride, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, may make the symptoms of dystonia more apparent. Therefore, we ex...

To determine whether refractoriness to histamine induced bronchoconstriction occurs, 20 asthmatic subjects aged 19-50 years were tested. Subjects underwent two histamine challenge tests (1 and 2) on the same day, the second one being given 45-60 minutes after the first, once the FEV1 after test 1 had returned spontaneously to within 90% of baseline. A further "control" histamine challenge test ...