Detection of circulating filarial antigen has now emerged as an alternative method for the diagnosis of bancroftian filariasis. We compared two antigen detection assays, an Og4C3 ELISA and an ICT (immunochromatography) Filariasis test, for the diagnosis of Wuchereria bancrofti infections in migrant Myanmar workers in Tak province, Western Thailand. A total of 337 Myanmars participated in this s...

BACKGROUND Human serum albumin (HSA) is the most abundant plasma protein and plays key a role in metabolism. The variation in albumin concentration provides valuable information related to metabolic diseases and diagnostic application. METHODS We constructed two assay systems to quantify the albumin concentration. The immunoassay used a fluorescence (FL) dye to detect albumin in samples and e...

two male dogs at the age of 3 and 5 months of doberman pinscher and german shepherd breeds were referred to the veterinary hospital of ahvaz university with clinical signs of depression, vomiting, haemorrhagic diarrhoea, profound dehydration, fever and anorexia. the affected dogs had not the history of vaccination. concurrent infection of canine parvovirus and coronavirus was detected in dogs b...

Leptospirosis is an infectious disease caused by the spirochete bacteria Leptospira spp. and is commonly found throughout the world. Diagnosis of leptospirosis performed by culture and microscopic agglutination tests is laborious and time-consuming. Therefore, we aimed to develop a novel immunochromatography (ICG)-based method for detecting Leptospira antigen in the urine of patients and animal...

Existing methods for detection of food-borne pathogens and their toxins are frequently time-consuming, require specialized equipment, and involve lengthy culture procedures and/or animal testing and are thus unsuitable for a rapid response to an emergency public health situation. A series of simple and rapid affinity immunochromatography column (AICC) assays were developed to detect Clostridium...

a new competitive immunochromatography (icg) strip test based on polyclonal antibody (pab) conjugated with gold nanoparticles (nps) was developed and its applications for primary screening of immunoglobulin (ig) a in serum were evaluated. nanocolloidal gold as the detection reagent, with an average particle diameter of 20 nm, was synthesized and labelled pab. the antibody-nanocolloidal gold pro...