Electrometric serology may be defined as serological study carried on by means of electrical measurements, of a physical chemical nature, made upon sera in any given state and referred to similar measurements made upon sera in a defined standard state. It is an attempt to introduce another exact method into a field already remarkably exact when the abstruse nature of the materials studied is co...

In a population-based case-control study we have previously shown that 14% of healthy Manitobans carry one or two mutations in the NOD-2 locus, a gene highly associated with Crohn's disease (CD). The NOD-2 protein is the receptor responsible for recognition of bacterial peptidoglycans, and it is plausible that NOD-2 is involved in the recognition of mycobacteria. Thirty-seven percent of Manitob...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess whether serology and spirometry and the combination of both can complement culture-based detection for earlier recognition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in children with cystic fibrosis. METHODS A 4 year longitudinal prospective study that included 67 Slovenian children with cystic fibrosis with a mean age of 10.5 years was conducted. Serol...

background helicobacter pylori infection is a common infection that affects human beings. this infection also affects children. different diagnostic methods such as serology, stool antigen detection, rapid urease test and histology are used to detect this microorganism. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the correlation between serology and histology/rapid urease test. patients a...

herein, we presented the first report on bluetongue (bt) disease in 10 pregnant camels in a herd fromkerman province, iran. all sera samples were tested serologically (agid, c-elisa). we also used the razi-bk cell line, performed primary culture of ovine kidney and inoculated intravenously the embryonatedchicken eggs (ece) to culture and isolate the bt virus. efforts to culture and isolation of...

BACKGROUND Screening for syphilis with treponemal chemiluminescence immunoassays (CIA) identifies patients with discordant serology who are not identified with traditional screening methods (eg, CIA-positive, rapid plasma regain (RPR)-negative). We sought to describe the clinical characteristics and management of patients with discordant syphilis serology. METHODS From August 2007-October 200...