Evaluation of direct agglutination test (DAT) and ELISA for serodiagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in India.

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate clinical features, bacterial characteristics, and risk factors for shock and mortality of immunocompromised patients with Escherichia coli bacteremia. METHODS:A nearly 6-year retrospective study of E coli bacteremia in 188 immunocompromised patients at Xiangya Hospital was conducted. Demographic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Tao X,Wang H,Min C,Yu T,Luo Y,Li J,Hu Y,Yan Q,Liu WE,Zou M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli are seldom demonstrated in tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) by conventional bacteriological methods. In this study, an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed to detect IgG against four mycobacterial recombinant antigens (ESAT-6, PlcA, HspX and Tb8.4) in 69...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Sumi S,Radhakrishnan VV

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past few years, interest in xenotransplantation of porcine islets of Langerhans for the future therapy of type I diabetes has increased markedly. Therefore, we established a semiautomated digestion method for isolating islets from the porcine pancreas. However, although the isolation technique was standardi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Heiser A,Ulrichs K,Müller-Ruchholtz W

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human epididymis protein 4 (HE4) may have high specificity in the detection of malignant diseases, making the development of an immunoassay for HE4 essential. METHODS:In our study, a fusion gene was constructed encoded with the HE4 protein. This protein was then produced in the bacterial cells (Escheric...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Zhou L,Lv Z,Shao J,Xu Y,Luo X,Zhang Y,Hu Y,Zhang W,Luo S,Fang J,Wang Y,Duan C,Huang R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We evaluated the new body fluid module on Sysmex UF1000-i (UF1000i-BF) for analysis of white blood cell (WBC) and red blood cell (RBC) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). METHODS:WBC and RBC counting were compared between UF1000i-BF and Fuchs-Rosenthal counting chamber in 67 CSF samples. This study also included ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Buoro S,Apassiti Esposito S,Alessio M,Crippa A,Ottomano C,Lippi G

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Mindray CAL 8000 is a cellular analysis line that consists of the BC-6800, an automated hematology analyzer, and the SC-120, an automated slidemaker/stainer. We evaluated the performances of the BC-6800 and the SC-120. METHODS:Four hundred and eight normal and abnormal samples were analyzed. The perfo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Lee HT,Park PW,Seo YH,Kim KH,Seo JY,Jeong JH,Kim MJ,Ahn JY

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dried blood spots (DBS) are an important form of bio-sampling and valuable approach for storing blood samples for genetic studies. This has necessitated in developing an effective protocol to isolate genomic DNA (gDNA) from DBS samples.In this study, we have elucidated a dependable and non-hazardous "single ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Shaik M,Shivanna DK,Kamate M,Ab V,Tp KV

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive predictive values for the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were determined for two antinative DNA assays: a Farr-type radioimmunoassay (RIA) and a solid-phase enzyme immunoassay (EIA). The study population consisted of all patients whose EIA anti-DNA results were positive (greater than 250 IU) ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Clough JD,Chang RK

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salmonella is an important foodborne pathogen that causes acute diarrhea in humans worldwide. This study analyzed the relationships of serotypes and antibiotic resistance with virulence genes of Salmonella isolated from children with salmonellosis. METHODS:Serological typing was performed using the slide-ag...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Yue M,Li X,Liu D,Hu X

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was performed to compare the clinical efficacies of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction with autologous ligament grafting at different time points. METHODS:Eighty-five patients with ACL were categorized into two groups: Group A (GA, n = 45), who underwent early-stage (≤3 weeks) surger...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Hu B,Gao F,Li C,Zhang B,An M,Lu M,Liu Y,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Second- and higher-order degradation reactions sometimes cannot be approximated with linear or exponential relationships and need to be appropriately modeled. Events above the COULTER HmX Analyzer white blood cell (WBC) counting threshold were recorded for the HmX PAK reagent system stored at five elevated temperature...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Magari RT,Murphy KP,Fernandez T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-8 were measured in 101 serum samples collected from eight intensive-care unit patients using a polystyrene-based stick enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (STICKELISA) system. This system consisted of an immobilized-antibody ELISA stick and a noncontact spectrophotometer. Cytokine concentration...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Miwa K,Shibayama N,Moriguchi T,Goto J,Yanagisawa M,Yamazaki Y,Jung G,Matsuda K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitation of hemoglobin alpha 2 delta 2 (HbA2) is a basic and confirmatory test in diagnosing the carrier state of beta-thalassemia. The present study was designed to investigate the effect of cigarette smoking on the diagnostic reliability of HbA2. A total of 2,867 (654 smokers and 2,213 never smokers) male subjec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Tarazi IS,Sirdah MM,El Jeadi H,Al Haddad RM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the associations of urinary markers (eg albumin), glomerular (eg transferrin [TRF], immunoglobulin G [IgG]), and tubular (eg α1-microglobulin [α1-MG], β2-microglobulin [β2-MG]) markers with the development of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in type 2 diabetes patients, as assessed by estimated glom...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Jiang X,Zhang Q,Wang HB,Cui XF,Liu R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to analyze apparently discrepant results that arose during the use of an indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) assay using transfected HEp-2 cells to detect anti-SS-A/Ro autoantibodies in human sera. Fourteen sera that had SS-A/Ro antibodies as detected on this commercial substrate, but did...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Fritzler MJ,Hanson C,Miller J,Eystathioy T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating bilirubin is thought to function as a physiological antioxidant. One of the decomposition products of this process is the biopyrrins, which include two regioisomers: biotripyrrin-a (1,14,15,17-tetrahydro-2,7,13-trimethyl-1,14-deoxy-3-vinyl-16H-tripyrrin-8,12-dipropionic acid) and biotripyrrin-b (1,14,15,17...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Ihara H,Matsumoto T,Morita Y,Hirano A,Okada M,Hashizume N,Shioji I,Yoshimura H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Newborn screening tests have been designed to identify infants with severe disorders that are relatively prevalent and treatable or controllable. Comparing to other countries, the incidence of these diseases are very high in Turkey where the rate of consanguineous marriage is high. METHODS:In this article, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Tezel B,Dilli D,Bolat H,Sahman H,Ozbaş S,Acıcan D,Ertek M,Köse MR,Dilmen U

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Definitive detection of hemoglobin (Hb) variants requires DNA sequencing. High-resolution melting (HRM) analysis of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplicons was applied to detect and discriminate among uncommon α-Hb variants found in Thailand. METHODS:Uncommon suspected α-Hb variants observed in Hb typing ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Yimniam W,Jindadamrongwech S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a special class of endogenous noncoding RNAs that have numerous biological functions in normal situation and diseases including cancers. However, the clinical significance of circRNAs in gastric cancer (GC) remains largely unknown. Here, we chose two representative circRNAs, hsa_...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Lu R,Shao Y,Tao X,Ye G,Xiao B,Guo J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We here describe an ion-exchange high-performance liquid chromatography technique with electrochemical detection for rapid quantification of glutathione, homocysteine, cysteinylglycine, and methionine. The analytical validation of the technique showed within-assay and between-assay coefficients of variation between 3....

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Houze P,Gamra S,Madelaine I,Bousquet B,Gourmel B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The newly developed immunoblot assay, RIBA SIA (recombinant and synthetic polypeptide immunoblot assay), Chiron, Calif., was compared with the commercially available second generation recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA-2) for the detection of antibody to hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV). The two immunoblot tests were also...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Chaudhary RK,Andonov A,MacLean C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Existing evidence suggests that impaired vitamin D metabolism contribute to the development of atherosclerosis. Aortic intima-media thickness (IMT) is an earlier marker than carotid IMT of preclinical atherosclerosis. However, there is a lack of researches on direct investigation of relevance between serum 2...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Kalkan GY,Gür M,Koyunsever NY,Şeker T,Gözükara MY,Uçar H,Kaypaklı O,Baykan AO,Akyol S,Türkoğlu C,Elbasan Z,Şahin DY,Çaylı M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of several soluble cytokine receptors in body fluids of healthy individuals change with age. Clinical application of the measurement of the serum soluble interleukin-1 receptor type I (sIL-1RI) level depends critically on the samples used as the controls. At present, there is no information regarding the le...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Okamoto Y,Tanaka M,Miyahara N,Tanabe M,Gotoh Y,Nagai T,Fujita N,Fukui T,Masuzawa T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alport syndrome (ATS) is a hereditary nephritis with hereditary and clinical heterogeneity; the early clinical symptoms are atypical, which can easily lead to misdiagnosis. The proband, a 6-year-old girl, was found to have microscopic hematuria, proteinuria, and visual impairment at about 5 years old; the re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Zhu Q,Zhou C,Wang J

更新日期：2020-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To discover how NLRP3 and TNFRSF1A polymorphisms affect the efficacy of traditional medicine and etanercept for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients. METHODS:Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and haplotype analyses were conducted based on determined NLRP3 and TNFRSF1A among AS patients. We subsequently a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Zhao S,Chen H,Wu G,Zhao C

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute aortic dissection (AOD) is associated with high mortality and early diagnosis and treatment are essential. Ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) is a marker of myocardial ischemia whereas cardiac enzymes are released when myocardial necrosis occurs. We investigated, for the first time, whether IMA increases ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Sbarouni E,Georgiadou P,Marathias A,Panagiotakos D,Geroulanos S,Voudris V

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bone marrow (BM) study plays an important role as initial investigation specimen of lymphoma as well as staging lymphoma. This study aimed to investigate the utility of BM studies for classification of lymphoma and evaluate features of BM involvement by lymphoma over a period of 11 years. METHODS:A total of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Kwoun WJ,Ahn JY,Park PW,Seo YH,Kim KH,Seo JY,Lee HT,Yoo KH

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reference intervals are critical for interpreting test results of a clinical laboratory. The aim of this study was to establish local reference intervals of complete blood count for healthy preschoolers in China. METHODS:Three thousand eight hundred and twenty-one blood specimens from children aged 4 months...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Wang GC,Li N,Niu C,Ma WB,Wang ZL,Guo H,Han LH

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reference intervals are important for interpretation of clinical laboratory tests. The platelet (PLT) indices such as the mean platelet volume (MPV) and platelet distribution width (PDW) are newer hematological parameters, which have been recently reported as clinically valuable biomarkers. However, there ar...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Hong J,Min Z,Bai-shen P,Jie Z,Ming-ting P,Xian-zhang H,Xiao-ke H,Lan-lan W,Xin Z,Wei G,Rui Q,Wen-xiang C,Xin-zhong W,Yue-yun M,Hong S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to evaluate whether a PEG-IAT method, modified for gel technique, could replace the two-stage enzyme method for routine identification of red blood cell (RBC) antibodies.A total of 161 selected patient samples were analyzed with the two-stage enzyme tube technique and the PEG-IAT in gel techniques. In 65 samp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Gustafsson L,Wikman A,Lundahl J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00