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Evaluation of new-generation serologic tests for the diagnosis of typhoid fever: data from a community-based surveillance in Calcutta, India

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 2006
Although typhoid fever is confirmed by culture of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi, rapid and simple diagnostic serologic tests would be useful in developing countries. We examined the performance of Widal test in a community field site and compared it
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Serologic Tests for Histoplasmosis

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1983
Excerpt To the editor: Wheat and associates (1) have shared a very large experience with histoplasmosis.
E S, Jacobson, S E, Straus
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Serologic tests for syphilis

Postgraduate Medicine, 1990
Not since the early 1950s has the number of new cases of syphilis been as high as it is now. The infectious agent, Treponema pallidum, is extremely difficult to culture in vitro and almost impossible to see by conventional light microscopy. A nonspecific antibody test is used for screening and a specific treponemal antibody test for confirmation ...
S W, Farnes, P A, Setness
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Serological Tests for Toxoplasmosis

Nature, 1961
INTEREST in various serological tests for toxoplasmosis has increased considerably in recent years. Sum and Lind1, in a preliminary communication, have recently described a flocculation test using toxoplasma antigen adsorbed on to acrylic particles. They stated that preliminary results of absorption experiments showed the existence of more than one ...
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Serologic Tests in Late Syphilis

Archives of Otolaryngology, 1977
To the Editor.—The report by Dr Gary D. Becker on late syphilis, which appeared in the December issue of the Archives (102:729-731,1976), was both interesting and of clinical importance. It is all too often that we assume on the basis of a positive FTA-ABS test that a patient has or has previously had syphilis, regardless of the results of ...
S A, Martinez, M B, Nolph
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Serologic Testing for Lyme Disease

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1985
Excerpt Lyme disease is a multisystem disorder in which epidemiologic and serologic studies have confirmed a tick-transmitted spirochete,Borrelia burgdorferi, as the causal agent.
J, Duffy, L E, Mertz
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A serologic test for vulvovaginal candidiasis

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2003
Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is a common medical problem affecting many women in the community w1–3x. The diagnosis of VVC remains problematic. Clinical features of VVC are nonspecific, and the standard laboratory test to identify Candida organisms from a vaginal swab may take between 5 to 7 days to confirm the diagnosis. Thus, as many as half of the
S W, Tan, A, Mackay, J, Warmington
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Quality control for serological testing

Clinica Chimica Acta
The quality control of serological assays remains controversial. The aim of this project was to describe the problems associated with a working model for controlling these assays and solutions, including using a source of well-defined targets and acceptable limits, a process to identify lot-to-lot reagent variation and an interpretation of the result ...
Tony, Badrick, Mickael, Fortun, Zoe, Vayanos, Mathieu, Bernard, Philippe, Dufour, Laurent, Souied, Jean-Marc, Giannoli   +6 more
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Serologic Tests in Diagnosis of Aspergillosis

Diseases of the Chest, 1968
SUMMARY The complement fixation test was found to be both sensitive and specific for detecting antibodies to Aspergillus fumigatus . Sera from active cases of histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, blastomycosis, cryptococcosis and healthy subjects failed to elicit any reactions against aspergillin.
J E, Walter, R D, Jones
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