chlamydia pneumoniae is a common respiratory pathogen which is often found in our paediatric populations. many patients with community-acquired pneumonia caused by c. pneumoniae have symptoms suggestive of sinusitis.the role of c. pneumonia in rhinosinusiits children (meanage =4.3 ±2.5year). this case control study was done in the pediatric and ent clinics of hazrat rasul hospital in tehran (20...

rheumatoid factors (rf) are autoantibodies with specificity for the fc portion of human igg. production of rf is a characteristic feature of rheumatoid arthritis (ra) and is detectable in high titer in about 90% of these patients. in this study, we measured total igm, iga, igmrf and igarf in serum and synovial fluid of 45 ra patients by elisa and the results were compared with those obtained by...

In New Zealand, an arbovirus surveillance program has been operating for more than 20 years, which includes testing of cattle with the Akabane virus neutralization test. With the aim to replace this laborious test by an easier-to-perform enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), 2 commercial ELISA kits, ELISA-1 from France (originally from Australia) and ELISA-2 from Japan, were compared, usin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical sensitivity and specificity of the newly developed Genedia malaria antigen enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test and to evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of the combined use of the Genedia malaria antigen and antibody ELISA tests to detect Plasmodium vivax in blood samples. MATERIALS AND METHODS In all, 1,070 samples were analyzed: 300 P. vivax-inf...

Background: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is an endemic disease in some parts of Iran. Many techniques have been used for diagnosis of VL, among which the urine based la-tex agglutination test (KAtex) is a promising one. Objective: To compare three diag-nostic tests of VL including KAtex, ELISA and Direct Agglutination Test (DAT) in VL patients and healthy controls in the south west of Iran. Meth...