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Single-serum diagnosis of recent rubella infection with the use of hemagglutination inhibition test and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays.

Single-serum diagnosis of recent rubella infection was attempted with the use of hemagglutination inhibition (HI) test and two commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs). The period during which IgM antibody was detectable by IgM capture ELISA was 4 to 30 days after the onset of rash. Rubella IgG ELISA values relative to HI titer were lower in the sera from the patients with recent infection than in the sera from the subjects with remote infection. IgM ELISA and the combined use of IgG ELISA and HI test are two useful methods of single-serum diagnosis of recent rubella infection.

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[Development of an antigen for the diagnosis of Kilham rat parvovirus by hemagglutination inhibition test].

An antigen of rat parvovirus (Kilham virus) was developed for the diagnosis of viral infection in rat colonies by using hemagglutination inhibition (HAI) test. Primary cell cultures from rat embryos were infected with Kilham rat virus. Infected cells obtained at different time post infection were scraped, centrifuged, concentrated one hundred times, sonicated and centrifuged again. The supernatants obtained were titrated by hemagglutination. The specificity was confirmed with positive and negative reference sera. Ninety eight serum samples were studied by using HAI test. The results coincided with those obtained in a reference laboratory. Kilham rat parvovirus antigen obtained from 5 days-infected-cells was specific, sensitive, easy to prepare, with a high yield and it is useful to detect this virus in experimental and production rat colonies.

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A comparison of Newcastle disease hemagglutination-inhibition test results from diagnostic laboratories in the southeastern United States.

A two-phase comparison was conducted using the Newcastle disease hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test to determine the variation of serologic results from poultry diagnostic laboratories in the southeastern United States. In the first phase of the comparison, most of the 17 participating laboratories in 10 states found the coded negative sera to be negative, and most found the potent sera to have the highest titers. However, there was a wide range of geometric mean titers (GMT's), from 2 to greater than or equal to 113 for the same serum samples. Each laboratory was strikingly consistent at reporting unknown but identical triplicate serum samples to have the same titer, even though the titers were frequently quite different from those of other laboratories. This observation indicated that currently used procedures yielded good reproducibility within individual laboratories but not necessarily between laboratories. In the second phase of the comparison, participants were furnished another set of coded sera, antigen, and a suggested incubation time. The implementation of the recommended incubation period reduced the extent of the lab-to-lab differences, but GMT's between labs still ranged from 11 to 95 on identical serum samples. When all laboratories used the same antigen, the average of the GMT results increased from 38 to 48, but the GMT's from the different laboratories ranged from 7 to more than 2048. Although the comparison exercise resulted in some improvement in uniformity, it was obvious that a continuing voluntary program should be initiated to certify laboratories and promote uniform test methods for specific serologic procedures using coded sera.

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Completion of hemagglutination inhibition test by solid-phase radioimmunoassay test in routine diagnostic rubella serology.

A solid-phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) test for rubella virus IgG and IgM class antibodies was used for completing the hemagglutination inhibition (HI) test in routine diagnostic serology. During a six-month period 80 serum specimens from 47 patients were tested by RIA because the HI test result was either unreliable or gave insufficient information. This was approximately 5% of the total number of serum specimens tested for rubella antibodies in our laboratory during the study period. The main indications for using the RIA test were improper timing in the taking of serum specimens, which accounted for IgM determination, and nonspecific agglutinins or nonspecific serum hemaglutination inhibitors, which disturbed the HI test. In all cases an unambiguous result was obtained by the RIA test, and five recent rubella infections, not diagnosably by the HI test, were detected. Based on these findings we consider the RIA test to be a good alternative among the methods proposed for diagnostic rubella serology.

Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests↗

Early detection of pregnancy in rhesus and stump-tailed macaques (Macaca mulatta and Macaca arctoides). Evaluation of two radioimmunoassays and a hemagglutination inhibition test.

Chorionic gonadotropin (mCG) in serum and urine of monkeys was determined by a radioimmunoassay and hemagglutination inhibition (HAI subhuman primate tube test for pregnancy). HAI-positive pregnancy tests coincided fully with the mCG excretion patterns as determined by RIA (oLH beta system). The least reliable system was the hCG-beta RIA. The HAI test allowed accurate prediction of the parturition date.

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