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Publikováno v:
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 15:425-432
Studies are needed to characterize the reproducibility of QuantiFERON-TB Gold (QFT-G) for targeted U.S. screening populations. Members of northern California households were tested with the QFT-G in-tube assay (QFT-G-IT) at two home visits 3 months a
Publikováno v:
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 15:575-578
Clostridium difficile causes nosocomial diarrhea and is responsible for complications such as pseudomembranous colitis, megacolon, and perforation. Using 442 stool specimens, we compared the sensitivities and specificities of the Premier toxin A and
Autor:
Plyyonk Sagarasaeranee, Uraiwan Kositanont, Anuchai Niwetpathomwat, David A. Haake, Galayanee Doungchawee, Tasanee Inwisai
Publikováno v:
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 15:492-498
There is an urgent need for the development of serodiagnostic approaches with improved sensitivity for patients with acute leptospirosis. Immunoblots were performed on 188 sera collected from 74 patients with laboratory-confirmed early leptospiral in
Autor:
Celia W. Goulding, Paul A. Luciw, JoAnne L. Flynn, Resmi Ravindran, Kathryn DeRiemer, Melanie Ziman, David M. Lewinsohn, Jo Ann Yee, Nickolas W. Lerche, Marila L. Gennaro, Imran Khan
Publikováno v:
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 15:433-438
Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious global disease. The fatality rate attributed to TB is among the highest of infectious diseases, with approximately 2 million deaths occurring per year worldwide. Identification of individuals infected with Mycobacterium
Publikováno v:
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 15:474-483
Current diagnostic tests for tuberculosis (TB) are not able to distinguish active disease from latentMycobacterium tuberculosisinfection, nor are they able to quantify the risk of a latently infected person progressing to active TB. There is interest
Autor:
Manuel Macias, María J. Bravo, Pilar Morata, Juan de Dios Colmenero, María Isabel Queipo-Ortuño
Publikováno v:
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 15:293-296
Real-time PCR is a widely used tool for the diagnosis of many infectious diseases. However, little information exists about the influences of the different factors involved in PCR on the amplification efficiency. The aim of this study was to analyze
Publikováno v:
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 15:177-181
The first commercial indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) using Euroimmun Biochip technology was evaluated for the serodiagnosis of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM antibodies against yellow fever virus (YFV) and was compared with the plaque reducti
Publikováno v:
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 15:235-242
The etiological agent of Johne's disease is Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis . Controlling the spread of this disease is hindered by the lack of sensitive, selective, and rapid detection methods for M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis . By us
Autor:
Andrew L. Baughman, William W. Thompson, Gary N. Sanden, Peter M. Strebel, Kristine M. Bisgard, Margaret M. Cortese
Publikováno v:
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 15:106-114
Numerous evaluations of the clinical sensitivity and specificity of PCR and serologic assays for Bordetella pertussis have been hampered by the low sensitivity of culture, the gold standard test, which leads to biased accuracy estimates. The bias can
Autor:
Vicente Ausina, José Domínguez, M. Angeles Jimenez, Cristina Prat, Silvia Blanco, Alicia Lacoma, Malú De Souza-Galvão, Neus Altet, Celia Milà, Juan Ruiz-Manzano, Irene Latorre
Publikováno v:
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 15:168-171
We evaluated the T-SPOT.TB and Quantiferon-TB Gold In tube (QFN-G-IT) tests for diagnosing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. T-SPOT.TB was more sensitive than QFN-G-IT in diagnosing both active and latent infection. Both gamma interferon tests we