Laboratory Evaluation of Commercial Immunoblot Assay Kit for Serodiagnosis of Echinococcus Infections Using Sera from Patients with Alveolar Hydatidosis in Hokkaido

• Published in: Kansenshogaku Zasshi Vol. 78; no. 4; pp. 320 - 326
• Main Authors: FURUYA, Koji, KAWANAKA, Masanori, YAMANO, Kimiaki, SATO, Naoki, HONMA, Hiroshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Japan The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases 01.04.2004
• Subjects: alveolar hydatidosis; Echinococcosis, Pulmonary - blood; Echinococcosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Humans; immunoblotting; Immunoblotting - instrumentation; Pulmonary Alveoli; Reagent Kits, Diagnostic - standards; serodiagnosis; Serologic Tests - methods

Using serum specimens from patients with alveolar hydatidosis (AH) in Hokkaido, we assessed the usefulness of “Echinococcus Western Blot IgG” (the French immuoblot assay, FIA), which has recently been launched from Ldbio Diagnostics (Lyon, France) as new commercial immunoblot assay kit of immunodiag...