Serum and urinary prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP) and prostatic specific antigen (PSA) from 20 dogs were measured. PAP and PSA tests were carried out in authomatized equipment with commercial kits used for humans. Mean PAP serum value was 0.7U/l and urinary 0.1U/l. Mean serum and urinary PSA were 0.005ng/dl and 0.004ng/dl, respectively. In vivo determination of these two biomarkers in dogs is ...

People evaluate themselves more positively than they evaluate most other people. Although this better than average (BTA) effect was originally thought to represent a motivated bias, several cognitively oriented theorists have questioned whether this is the case. In support of a motivational model, the author reports five studies showing that the BTA effect is stronger for important attributes t...

Abstract Many patients with anti-Yt a receive multiple transfusions of Yt(a+) red blood cells (RBCs) no ill effects. However, has been implicated in hemolytic transfusion reactions. Antibody identification typically determines specificity antibodies and their clinical significance to justify requirements for antigen-negative when clinically significant are involved. Occasionally, antibody is va...

Mortality associated with invasive aspergillosis (IA) remains high, partly because of delayed diagnosis. Detection of microbial exoantigens, released in serum and other body fluids during infection, may help timely diagnosis. In course of IA, Aspergillus galactomannan (GM), a well established polysaccharide biomarker, is released in body fluids including urine. Urine is an abundant, safely coll...

BACKGROUND Recently, two excellent methods have been used for the diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease: urinary antigen detection and PCR. The purpose of the present study is to analyze and evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of three different urinary antigen detection kits as well as PCR. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 148 samples were collected from 33 patients between 1993 and 2004. ...

Adult prostatic stromal sarcoma is a rare malignant tumor. The main presenting symptom is urinary retention secondary to bladder outlet obstruction. Prostatic Specific Antigen level can be normal. Imaging features show a prostate mass with or without pelvic organ invasion depending on the aggressiveness of the tumor. We present a patient with prostatic stromal sarcoma who debuted with urinary o...

Introduction: Prostate cancer is the utmost communal type of in adult men. Assessment serum total prostate specific antigen (PSA) broadly cast-off as a screening assistance prompt diagnosis prostate. Irrespective size or patient’s age, 25% cut off value set less free PSA level percentage suggested for cases with values amid 4.1 and 10 ng/ml; This helps detecting cancers 95% prevent 20% unnecess...

Objective: To evaluate programmed death-ligand 1 immunohistochemical expression in the available variants of urinary bladder carcinoma, and to correlate its with clinicopathological features.Method: The retrospective study was conducted at Faculty Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt, from February 2020 April 2021, comprised formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded specimens carcinoma belonging pat...

We report here false-positive urinary Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 and Streptococcus pneumoniae antigen test results due to rabbit antilymphocyte serum treatment and provide a simple and fast solution to rule them out by heating urine.

We evaluated a new immunochromatographic assay (Oxoid Xpect Legionella test kit) for the ability to detect Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 antigen in urine. The results were compared with those obtained with the Binax NOW urinary antigen test by following the manufacturers' instructions. The sensitivities and specificities were estimated to be 89 and 100%, respectively, for the Oxoid Xpect L...