"But no laboratory test for any disease is 100percentt," said one member of the panel, Dr. Karin Weyer of the South African Medical Research Council.
While he took courses, Dr. Lee traveled through Micronesia to treat leprosy patients and used the blood samples he collected to develop a faster laboratory test for leprosy.
Dr. Ridker, an inventor of a laboratory test for CRP who profits from its use, said that while the new results did not support causality, he did not think they definitely excluded it either.
But a laboratory test for antibodies against the virus was inconclusive, possibly because blood was drawn for the test early in the illness, while a genetic test for the virus has not yet been completed, Dr. Lam said.
Cephalin-cholesterol flocculation, laboratory test for the nonspecific measurement of blood globulins, a group of proteins that appear in abnormally high concentrations (hyperglobulinemia) in association with certain diseases.
Thymol turbidity, laboratory test for the nonspecific measurement of globulins, a group of blood proteins that appear in abnormally high concentration in association with a wide variety of diseased states, notably those affecting the liver.
But I think the best way to understand what is happening in southern Europe is to see it as a laboratory test for austerity, austerity that is far more severe than anything contemplated here in the UK.
Mr. Sorkin asked his research staff to find an affliction that did not put Mr. Bartlet in a wheelchair, could go undetected for years at a time, and that could be in remission and undetectable in checkups because there was no laboratory test for it.
Blood culture is the most valuable laboratory test for the diagnosis of bacteremia and sepsis.
"Our feeling is that this is going to be a useful new laboratory test for establishing a diagnosis of anaphylaxis".
As an in vivo laboratory test for the detection of endocrine potentials, the reproduction test with the New Zealand mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum is carried out at the University of Frankfurt/Main according to OECD [36].
