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Mucopolysaccharidosis IVA: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management. [PDF]

, 2020
Mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA (MPS IVA, or Morquio syndrome type A) is an inherited metabolic lysosomal disease caused by the deficiency of the N-acetylglucosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase enzyme.
Couce, Maria L., Otero, Francisco J., Piechnik, Matthew, Sawamoto, Kazuki, Suzuki, Yasuyuki, Tomatsu, Shunji, Álvarez González, José Víctor   +6 more
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Clinical performance of different SARS‐CoV‐2 IgG antibody tests

Journal of Medical Virology, 2020
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) serological assays are urgently needed for rapid diagnosis, contact tracing, and for epidemiological studies. So far, there is limited data on how commercially available tests perform with real
N. Kohmer, S. Westhaus, Cornelia Rühl, S. Ciesek, H. Rabenau   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Cross-Sectional Study of People with Epilepsy and Neurocysticercosis in Tanzania: Clinical Characteristics and Diagnostic Approaches. [PDF]

, 2011
Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a major cause of epilepsy in regions where pigs are free-ranging and hygiene is poor. Pork production is expected to increase in the next decade in sub-Saharan Africa, hence NCC will likely become more prevalent. In this study,
A Meyer, A Michault, A Nicoletti, AG Lescano, Ana Flisser, Andrea S. Winkler, AS Winkler, AS Winkler, AS Winkler, AS Winkler, AS Winkler, C Simac, C Simac, EM Kojic, Erich Schmutzhard, F Quet, H Carabin, HA Ngowi, Herbert Auer, IK Phiri, JA Serpa, Joachim Blocher, JP Singhvi, JV Proaño-Narvaez, M Dumas, M Rigatti, M Schaffert, M Wilson, Matthias Schaffert, MT Medina, MT Medina, N Senanayake, OH Del Brutto, OH Del Brutto, OH Del Brutto, OH Del Brutto, Paige N. Gupton, Patricia P. Wilkins, PC Ndimubanzi, PM Preux, PP Wilkins, PR De Bittencourt, S Ong, SM Montano, TE Nash, TE Nash, Thaddaeus Gotwald, TL Mac, V Rajshekhar, VC Tsang, W Dent, William Matuja   +51 more
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Development of Monoclonal Antibody-Based Enzyme Immunoassay for Human Pancreatic Secretory Trypsin Inhibitor (PSTI) Suitable for Clinical Tests

Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition, 1988
Masao Kohno, Nobuo Yoshida, Kyozo Hayashi, Masayuki Kurobe   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Relationship between Paraoxonase-1 and Arylesterase Enzyme Activities and SYNTAX I and II Scores in Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Journal of Tehran University Heart Center, 2019
Background: Although serum paraoxonase-1 (PON-1) and arylesterase (ARE) activities are linked to the presence of stable coronary arterial disease, their correlation with SYNTAX Score I (SS1) and SYNTAX Score II (SS2) has not been known well.
Erdoğan Sökmen, Mustafa Çelik, Serkan Sivri, Kenan Güçlü   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emerging Approaches for Fluorescence-Based Newborn Screening of Mucopolysaccharidoses

Diagnostics, 2020
Interest in newborn screening for mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) is growing, due in part to ongoing efforts to develop new therapies for these disorders and new screening assays to identify increased risk for the individual MPSs on the basis of deficiency ...
Rajendra Singh, Shaileja Chopra, Carrie Graham, Melissa Langer, Rainer Ng, Anirudh J. Ullal, Vamsee K. Pamula   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sensitivity and Specificity of Treponemal-specific Tests for the Diagnosis of Syphilis

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020
We conducted a systematic review of relevant syphilis diagnostic literature to address the question, “What is the sensitivity and specificity of the treponemal tests currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the diagnosis of ...
Ina U. Park, Anthony Tran, Lara E Pereira, Y. Fakile   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Isolation and Characterization of Glutaminase-free L-asparaginase Produced by Staphylococcus sp. MGM1

SciMedicine Journal, 2020
L-asparaginase is an important therapeutic enzyme used in combination with other drugs for therapy of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). L-asparaginase catalyzes the conversion of asparagine to aspartic acid and ammonia.
Gholamhossein Ebrahimipour, Mohammad Yaghoobi Avini, Mahtab Ghorbanmovahhed   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of the utility of repeat stool testing for Clostridium difficile stool toxin using enzyme immunoassay [PDF]

, 2015
The poor performance of toxin enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for laboratory testing for Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection (CDI) is well acknowledged. Guidelines published in recent years state that testing solely with EIA for detecting toxins A
Barbara, Christopher, Borg, Michael Angelo, Galea, Karl   +2 more
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Functional assessment using short tests in a patient with Pompe disease receiving enzyme replacement therapy: case report

Case Reports, 2019
Introduction: Pompe disease is characterized by the deficiency of the acid alfa glucosidase enzyme, which leads to a glycogen accumu­lation mainly in cardiac and skeletal muscles.
Thomas Torres-Cuenca, Jorge Arturo Díaz-Ruíz, Fernando Ortiz-Corredor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source