Whether you're welcoming home a new baby, flying to a new destination for a vacation or working around sick patients as a doctor or nurse, your immunity is your invisible armor against all the bugs ...

Given the nature of their work, students engaged in health professional training programs could have a higher risk of contracting Rubeola, Rubella, Mumps, Tetanus, Diphtheria, Varicella, Tuberculosis, ...

Every employer wants a healthy workforce, both for the good of the employees and the good of the company. But when outbreaks of infectious diseases make headlines — like the current measles outbreak ...

During recent years, numerous attempts have been made in this laboratory to devise a serologic test for hepatitis. The demonstration of a specific hemagglutinin in the serums of monkeys with yellow ...

A seroprotective response to a challenge dose of hepatitis B vaccine was seen in more than 90% of study participants who received the vaccine as infants, according to recent study findings published ...

The kinetics of this antibody have been evaluated in patients treated with interferon and in those selected for liver transplantation. [49] Long-term sustained response to therapy is associated with ...

The characteristics of the 681 study subjects are shown in Table 1. The majority (62.1%) of subjects were male. The mean age at enrollment was 15.58 years and the mean time interval from the reception ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Because many patients with acute hepatitis B lack detectable hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), a radioimmunoassay for IgM antibody to ...

A quantitative competitive RNA polymerase chain reaction (QC-PCR) assay was developed for measuring absolute levels of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA in the sera of 121 viremic persons, including 64 ...

DeBakey and Ochsner 4 analyzed 263 cases of amebiasis. They found that fever was present in 87 per cent, "liver pain" and tenderness in 89 per cent and hepatomegaly in 77 per cent of 36 patients with ...