DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTIPLEX MICROSPHERE IMMUNOASSAY FOR THE DETECTION OF ANTIBODIES AGAINST HIGHLY PATHOGENIC VIRUSES IN HUMAN AND ANIMAL SERUM SAMPLES.

Development of a multiplex microsphere immunoassay for the detection of antibodies against highly pathogenic viruses in human and animal serum samples.

Surveillance of highly pathogenic viruses circulating in both human and animal populations is crucial to unveil endemic infections and potential zoonotic reservoirs.Monitoring the burden of disease by serological assay could be used as an early warning system for imminent outbreaks as an increased seroprevalance often precedes larger outbreaks.Howe

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Skin Punch as a Potential Diagnostic Tool for Peripheral Neuropathies of Dogs: Set up of an Indirect Immunofluorescence Protocol on Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) Biopsy

In veterinary medicine, the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathies is currently performed using semithin sections or nerve fiber teasing from nerve biopsy.However, these methods actually fail to identify more specific length-dependent and somatosensitive neuropathies.In humans, skin punch biopsy is used to diagnose the latter, through the identificat

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The antimicrobial action of polyaniline involves production of oxidative stress while functionalisation of polyaniline introduces additional mechanisms

Polyaniline (PANI) and functionalised polyanilines (fPANI) are novel antimicrobial agents Die-Cast whose mechanism of action was investigated.Escherichia coli single gene deletion mutants revealed that the antimicrobial mechanism of PANI likely involves production of hydrogen peroxide while homopolymer poly(3-aminobenzoic acid), P3ABA, used as an e

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