Serum bactericidal antibodies are important for protection against systemic Neisseria meningitidis infections. Consequently, identifying the specific targets of bactericidal antibodies is important for understanding protective immunity to meningococcal disease and for vaccine development and evaluation. We have developed a new assay that can be used to investigate the specificity of serum bacte...

Rose bengal plate test (RBPT) antigens from Brucella melitensis and Brucella suis S 2 were prepared and compared with RBPT antigen prepared from classical Brucella abortus S 99. A total of 54 sera samples, of which 7 were collected from humans with brucellosis and 47 from infected sheep, were studied by using RBPT and serum agglutination test (SAT). RBPT and SAT results showed that RBPT antigen...

Abstract. Currently, there is no doubt about the feasibility of determining frequency HLA and analysis genetic associations, including those that determine state immunity, in patients with genitourinary disease.
 The study aimed to evaluate phenotypes most common diseases system identify risk antigens or protectors.
 Methods. distribution was studied 384 pyelonephritis glomerulonephri...

BACKGROUND Recent availability of tests for Helicobacter pylori antigens in stool samples has provided potentially useful tools for epidemiological studies and clinical settings. The aim of this study was to evaluate a monoclonal antibody-based H. pylori antigen stool test in the primary diagnosis of H. pylori infection, and to study the test performance after patients were treated with lanzopr...

This report describes the evaluation of a chemical test for T-antigen in rectal mucus as a screening test for colon cancer. The test, called the Mucus Strip Test, detects the disaccharide residue sialic acid-free beta-D-Gal(1-->3)-D-GalNAc or T-antigen, which accumulates in mucus from malignant cells and colonic mucosa adjacent to cancer but not in normal mucosa. Participants were an unselected...

A novel lateral flow immunoassay biosensor, combining the receptor-ligand reaction and antigen-antibody was developed for detection of ?-lactam antibiotics in milk. The receptor protein, carboxy-terminal domain sensor-transducer mutant from Bacillus. licheniformis, served as recognition element. Colloidal gold (CG)-labelled antibody-receptor ternary complex applied a signal transducer probe. pr...

The paper introduces the symbolic algebraic computational capability of Surface Constructor, a software tool for gear investigation. Use of symbolic expressions in the kinematical model gives a higher freedom in constructing and modifying the model. Modelling in this manner we can model the kinematical model itself and can make a kinematical modelling shell. The advantages of applying symbolic ...

Typhoid fever poses a serious public health problem in Nigeria and is largely diagnosed based on the Widal agglutination test which has been proven to be neither sensitive nor specific. This study determined prevalence of typhoid using both blood culture automated microbiology systems (BD BACTEC). The was carried out among 90 patients attending Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital Kano. Out cas...