Evaluation of Heat Stable B. Pseudomallei Antigens in a Dot Enzyme Immunoassay
Auteur : Mei Kid Leong
Date de publication : 1997
Éditeur : Secretariat 9th National Biotechnology Seminar c/o Centre for Gene Analysis, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Nombre de pages : 4
Résumé du livre
However, from the 103 IHAT positive serum samples showed only 20/103 (19.4%) were negative of which 6/26 (23%) were from IHA titer of 1:40, 4/19 (21.1%) from IHA titer of 1:80, 9/25 (36%) from IHA titer of 1:160, and 1/16 (6.3%) from the IHA titer of>1:640. Higher rate of strong positive samples in 8/17 (47.1%) and 9/16 (56.3%) by dot enzyme immunoassay demonstrated from IHA titer of 1:320 and> 1:640 respectively. Three culture positive melioidosis cases from post discharged patients showed very high titers of 1:100,000 and>1:6000 in DEIA and IHA titers of 1:2560, 1:1280 respectively. The study showed promising results for further utilization of dot enzyme immunoassay in seroepidemiological, surveillance and clinical melioidosis study. [Authors' abstract].