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Encephalitis
Studies from A. Shrivastva and colleagues provide new data on encephalitis
September 1st, 2008
"Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a major public health concern in Asia including India. To evaluate an in-house developed dipstick enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test visa-vis two commercial kits for detection of JE virus-specific IgM antibodies," researchers in Gwalior, India report. "Comparative study carried out in Research and Development centre. A total of 136 specimens comprising 84 serum and 52 CSF samples were tested by in-house dipstick ELISA, Pan-Bio IgM capture ELISA (Pan-Bio, Australia) and JEV CheX IgM capture ELISA (XCyton, India). The overall agreement among all three tests was found to be 92% with both serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)...
Source: Pain & Central Nervous System Week (2008-09-01)
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