Assessment of enzyme linked immunosorbent assay based diagnostic kits (Toxokit-G and Toxokit-M) for the detection of IgG and IgM antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in human serum.
Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis
; 20(4): 309-14, 1997 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
An enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using penicillinase was developed in the form of diagnostic kits (Toxokit-G and Toxokit-M) for the detection of IgG and IgM antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii. The performance of both the kits was compared with commercially available diagnostic kits, i.e. Enzygnost-Toxoplasmosis/IgG (Behring Co., Germany), TOXOTEK-G (Flow Lab., U.K.) and Toxoplasma IgM Microassay (Diamedix Corp., U.S.A.) by testing toxoplasma-suspected human serum samples. The results indicate a good reliability between these diagnostic kits. Toxokit-G has 86.66 and 96.05% sensitivity and specificity respectively. The main advantage of Toxokit-G is that the end result can be assessed visually without using sophisticated instruments. Toxokit-M has 100% sensitivity and specificity and test results were not affected by the presence of antitoxoplasma IgG antibodies, rheumatoid factor or antinuclear antibodies.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Kit de Reagentes para Diagnóstico
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Toxoplasma
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Imunoglobulina G
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Imunoglobulina M
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Anticorpos Antiprotozoários
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Toxoplasmose
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis
Ano de publicação:
1997
Tipo de documento:
Article
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Índia