Serologic tests are blood tests that look for antibodies in your blood. They can involve a number of laboratory techniques. Different types of serologic tests are used to diagnose various disease ...

COVID-19 testing includes molecular (PCR), antigen (rapid), and antibody (serology) tests, each serving different ...

At the root of almost every plan to restart society is a new kind of coronavirus test that searches not for the virus itself, but the remnants floating in people’s blood of the battle between ...

In a setting where the prevalence of a disease like COVID-19 is small, then even with serologic tests that are very specific (but falling just short of 100%), many people who have a positive test ...

In our clinic, quantitative serologic tests are taken routinely on all patients with early syphilis, but these have proved to be of the greatest value in the cases with negative dark-field lesions ...

Study: Leveraging serology testing to identify children at risk for post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection: An EHR-based cohort study from the RECOVER program. Image Credit: L Julia ...

First serologic tests used in Europe and Asia were indirect immunofluorescence assays. The most commonly used serological tests for hantavirus are indirect IgG and IgM ELISAs, as well as IgM ...

In some cases, experts recommend against routine serologic testing. The only clinical situation with a strong recommendation for testing was in pediatric patients suspected of having multisystem ...

Less than one-third of these patients had evidence of celiac serology results in the medical record, and even in patients with pre-biopsy testing the majority were serologically negative (Table 1).

When faced with a patient presenting with an acute febrile rash illness (i.e., a suspected case of measles), the two best confirmatory diagnostic options are: Serologic testing for measles ...

Serologic evidence of psittacosis in chickens has been widely recognized in the United States. Karrer, Meyer and Eddie, 6 using the complement-fixation inhibition test on chicken serums collected ...