Toxoplasma antibody titers by ELISA and indirect latex agglutination test in pregnant women.
10.3347/kjp.1996.34.4.233
- Author:
Jae Sook RYU
1
;
Duk Young MIN
;
Myoung Hee AHN
;
Han Gyoo CHOI
;
Sang Chul RHO
;
Young Jeon SHIN
;
Boyoul CHOI
;
Hoo Don JOO
Author Information
1. Department of Parasitology, Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article ; Clinical Trial ; Comparative Study ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- MeSH:
parasitology-protozoa;
Toxoplasma gondii;
indirect latex agglutination test;
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay;
pregnant women
- From:The Korean Journal of Parasitology
1996;34(4):233-238
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
The seroepidemiologic studies on anti-Toxoplasma antibody titers were carried out using ELISA and indirect latex agglutination test. Among 899 sera prepared from pregnant women, 39 cases (4.3%) revealed positive reaction and 218 sera from middle school students showed 4 positive reaction (1.8%) by ELISA. By LAT(newly established by National Veterinary Research Institute, Korea), the sera of 7 pregnant women (0.8%) showed positive reaction. When 80 sera showing +S1:8 by LAT were used for comparing the results obtained from LAT and Toxotest-MT (Eiken Chemical Co., Japan), 7 cases and 8 sera were positive, respectively. All of 11 sera of proven toxoplasmosis patients showed positive reaction in both tests. Overall proportion of agreement between LAT kit and Toxotest-MT was 0.94( -index= 0.632, p<0.01), and LAT was considered to be useful for the screening of toxoplasmosis.
