Serologic examination of an acute blood sample was immunoglobulin M (IgM) positive for Sin Nombre virus, but low optical densities indicated potential for an infection with a related hantavirus rather than Sin Nombre virus.
Serologic examination showed typical patterns for both alveolar and cystic echinococcosis.
Patients' clinical signs and symptoms were recorded, and acute- and convalescent-phase serum samples were obtained for serologic examination and virus isolation in Vero E6 and C6/36 cells.
On the basis of imaging showing numerous multiple cysts, serologic examination showing typical patterns for both alveolar and cystic echinococcosis, and the life history of the patient, the diagnosis of polycystic echinococcosis caused by E. vogeli could have been made before surgical intervention (5, 7, 9 ).
For all Pneumocystis carriers, a complete clinical and biologic evaluation was performed, including physical examination, chest x-ray, conventional blood work, anti-HIV serologic examination, and peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets analyses.
Serologic examination was performed with the hemagglutination-inhibition (HIT) and plaque-reduction neutralization tests (PRNT) in microplates (3 – 5 ).
For each participant, we provided services including serologic testing for anti-VCA-IgA antibody, otorhinolaryngologic examinations, and medical consultations performed by physicians from SYSUCC.
Serologic testing for Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, and Legionella and also testing (both serology and PCR) for Coxiella burnetti were negative.
The recently available serologic testing for H. capsulatum antigen is highly sensitive.
None of the eyes in our series had toxoplasmosis related chorioretinal scars and negative serologic testing for toxoplasmosis antibodies.
