A Sauerbrei ([email protected])1, S Schmitt2, T Scheper3, A Brandstädt4, S Saschenbrecker3, M Motz5, E Soutschek5, P Wutzler1 1. Institute of Virology and Antiviral Therapy, German Reference Laboratory for HSV and VZV, Jena University Clinic, Jena, Germany 2. SanofiPasteur MSD, Leimen, Germany 3. Institute of Experimental Immunology (affiliated to Euroimmun AG), Lübeck, Germany ...

The current Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in the Americas caused an increase in diagnostic requests in European countries. Here we demonstrate high specificity of the Euroimmun anti-ZIKV IgG and IgM ELISA tests using putative cross-reacting sera of European patients with antibodies against tick-borne encephalitis virus, dengue virus, yellow fever virus and hepatitis C virus. This test may aid in c...

BACKGROUND The recent identification of circulating autoantibodies directed towards the M-type phospholipase A2 receptor (PLA2R) has been a major advancement in the serological diagnosis of idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN), a common cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults. The goal of this study was to compare the performance characteristics of two commercial assays as well as the first ad...

Commercial chikungunya virus (CHIKV)-specific IgM detection kits were evaluated at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Public Health Agency of Canada National Microbiology Laboratory, and the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA). The Euroimmun Anti-CHIKV IgM ELISA kit had ≥ 95% concordance with all three reference laboratory results. The limit of detection for low CHIK ...

Methods In this study 25 celiac patients with a mean age of 30.8 ± 13.6 years in Ilam province western Iran were recruited. Approximately 6 ml blood sample was taken from each participant. Food allergy was assessed by EUROIMMUN kit and analyzed by EURO line Scan software (Es). According to Es, patients are categorized into 5 categories including 0 (no specific antibody), 1 (very weak antibodies...

ABSTRACT. Approximately 600 million people worldwide are infected with Strongyloides stercoralis . Many diagnostic laboratories use serology to detect the infection. SsRapid ® is a prototype IgG4 lateral flow test based on NIE recombinant protein. We compared two commercial IgG-ELISAs (Bordier and Euroimmun) using five sera groups (G1–5, N = 170). Healthy individuals from nonendemic areas (G1, ...

background and objectives: the obligate intracellular bacterium chlamydia trachomatis causes sexually transmissible diseases in human. timely and sensitive detection of this pathogen is very important. there are many cross-reactions in bacteriological and serological methods in detection of this type of pathogens. the aim of this study was to achieve a more specific antigen for serological test...