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what is 'elek test'?
Definition for Elek test
Elek test is a medical procedure used for such diagnoses as: diphtheria.
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diphtheria
bacterial upper respiratory disease
Elek test and diphtheria
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Blood, Platelet Count
Platelet Count
Elek test and Blood, Platelet Count
Cardiac enzymes
Elek test and Cardiac enzymes
Chest X-ray
Radiological technique to image the chest
Elek test and Chest X-ray
Complete Blood Count
Elek test and Complete Blood Count
Corynebacterium Diphtheriae Culture
Elek test and Corynebacterium Diphtheriae Culture
Cricothyrotomy
Elek test and Cricothyrotomy
Culture
Elek test and Culture
Culture throat
Elek test and Culture throat
Diphtheria antitoxin
Elek test and Diphtheria antitoxin
ECHOcardiogram
Elek test and ECHOcardiogram
EKG
Electrocardiogram
Elek test and EKG
Electrical pacing
Elek test and Electrical pacing
Endotracheal Intubation
Intubation
Elek test and Endotracheal Intubation
Gram stain
Elek test and Gram stain
Immunofluorescent staining
Elek test and Immunofluorescent staining
Mechanical Ventilation
Elek test and Mechanical Ventilation
Physical and Occupational Therapy
Arthritis Physical and Occupational Therapy
Elek test and Physical and Occupational Therapy
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Elek test and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Serum troponin
Elek test and Serum troponin
Tracheostomy
Elek test and Tracheostomy
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clindamycin(cleocin hcl)
Elek test and clindamycin(cleocin hcl)
erythromycin
Elek test and erythromycin
erythromycin(e-mycin)
Elek test and erythromycin(e-mycin)
penicillin g procaine
Elek test and penicillin g procaine
penicillin(penicillin g sodium)
Elek test and penicillin(penicillin g sodium)
rifampin(rifadin)
Elek test and rifampin(rifadin)
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Evaluation of three simple and rapid immunological tests for detection ...
... Elek (Biken) test, the modified staphylococcal coagglutination test, and ... of the Biken test (modified Elek test) for detection of enterotoxigenic ...
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eMedicine - Toxoplasmosis : Article by Murat Hökelek
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that produces a wide range of clinical syndromes in humans, land ... Titers parallel dye test titers. ...
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2294.htm
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Corynebacterium diphtheriae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is also known as the Klebs-Löffler bacillus, because it was discovered in ... is most appreciated when performing Elek's test for toxogenecity, in order to ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corynebacterium_diphtheriae
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Comparison of Phenotypic and Genotypic Methods for Detection of ...
... the Elek immunoprecipitation test (5) ... Elek immunoprecipitation test. ... The Elek immunoprecipitin test is still used in many laboratories worldwide; ...
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Respiratory Diphtheria Caused by Corynebacterium ulcerans -- Terre ...
Respiratory Diphtheria Caused by Corynebacterium ulcerans -- Terre ... by a toxin-antitoxin precipitation assay (Elek test) and by PCR assay on the isolate. ...
http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/m0051752/m0051752.asp
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CDC - Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157, Kinshasa
... diarrhea in 1996 were attributed to E. coli O157 from molecular test results (6) ... Easy-to-perform modified Elek test to identify Shiga-like toxin?producing ...
http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/EID/vol10no5/03-1034.htm
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Immunochromatographic Strip Test for Rapid Detection of Diphtheria ...
Elek immunoprecipitation test. ... The results of the Elek test and the ICS test were in agreement for 102 of 110 ... test in some countries where facilities ...
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Talk:Corynebacterium diphtheriae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2 Poorly translated test from the german wiki. 3 Morphology ... The proof takes place by means of Elek test. Will merge later Onco_p53 06:10, 6 July 2006 (UTC) ...
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Elek-Test ? Wikipedia
Man verwendet den ELEK-Test zum Nachweis dieses Toxins und damit natürlich auch ... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elek-Test" Kategorie: Mikrobiologisches Testverfahren ...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elek-Test
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NMB1257.br
... 75 # Q + + YV +A+ K+A + +D + ELEK++KD +A+ + N # Sbjct: ... test: 16 Number of HSP's that attempted gapping in prelim test: 568 Number of ...
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Chapter 4 - Diphtheria - Yellow Book | CDC Travelers' Health
Welcome to the CDC Travelers' Health site. Skip directly to the search box, site ... Toxin production is confirmed by performing a modified Elek test. ...
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/yellowBookCh4-Diphtheria.aspx
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Emergence of Related Nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae Biotype ...
For some isolates, the Elek test was also performed; it was consistently negative. ... to tetracycline in the disk diffusion test (inhibition zone diameter 10 mm to ...
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no3/funke.htm
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Genotypic and Phenotypic Characteristics of Corynebacterium diphtheriae ...
... testing by the Elek test and an indirect hemagglutination ... determined by the Elek immunoprecipitation method (Elek test) ... by the Elek test. ...
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Detection of the thermostable direct hemolysin gene and related DNA ...
... vibrio species by the DNA colony hybridization test. ... The modified Elek test was slightly less sensitive than the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. ...
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Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis ...
... strain (1 of 14) gave a positive Elek test for diphtheria toxin, and ... A substitute for serum in the diphtheria in vitro toxigenicity test. Am J Clin Pathol. ...
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eMedicine - Diphtheria : Article by Cem S Demirci
Diphtheria is an acute toxin-mediated disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. ... Perform toxigenicity testing using the Elek test to determine if the C ...
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic596.htm
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SP0656.br
... TRNKLPLYAAIDNYH----GRIENLILSQENQD 82 # +E L H + NE ELEK+LE + L +A ++H E+L+ +EN D ... prelim test: 33 Number of HSP's that attempted gapping in prelim test: 4504 ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/COG/grace/blyz.cgi?cog=SP0656&raw/SP0656
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An Epidemic of Bloody Diarrhea: Escherichia coli O157 Emerging in Cameroon?
Between November 1997 and April 20, 1998, bloody diarrhea sickened 298 persons in ... Easy-to-perform modified Elek test to identify Shiga-like toxin-producing ...
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no2/cunin.htm
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Detection by a staphylococcal coagglutination test of heat-labile ...
... of the Biken test (modified Elek test) for detection of enterotoxigenic ... Takeda Y, Miwatani T. Modified Elek test for detection of heat-labile ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=272698
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Rapid screening for toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae by the ...
... traditional toxigenicity assays (the Elek test and guinea pig inoculation) in all cases. PCR has several advantages over the Elek test: it gives a same-day ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=494973
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Brisbane State High School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1969 Elek, Andrew L. 1995 Cassidy, Mark [edit] Military. Geoff ... Ian Healy ? Australian test cricketer. Michael Kasprowicz ? Australian test cricketer ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_State_High_School
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aq_018a.br
ELEK++ ELK +L LRF E + IAR LT++ E++L # Sbjct: 6 ... of HSP's successfully gapped in prelim test: 55 Number of HSP's that attempted ...
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eMedicine - Diphtheria : Article by Elzbieta Pilat
Diphtheria is caused by an aerobic, nonencapsulated, nonmotile, gram-positive ... Elek test detects the development of an immunoprecipitin band on a filter paper ...
http://emedicine.com/emerg/topic138.htm
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NIDA - Director's Report - September, 2006
The goal of this study was to test the effects of online group interaction among ... Elek, E., Miller-Day, M., and Hecht, M.L. Influences of Personal, Injunctive, ...
http://www.nida.nih.gov/DirReports/DirRep906/DirectorReport6.html
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Screening tests for pathogenic corynebacteria.
... 21 gave a positive Elek test with the modified culture ... Elek, Stephen D. The Plate Virulence Test for Diphtheria. J Clin Pathol. 1949 Nov;2(4):250?258. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=495813
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Improved detection of heat-labile enterotoxin of enterotoxigenic ...
Finkelstein RA, Yang Z. Rapid test for identification of heat-labile enterotoxin ... Takeda Y, Miwatani T. Modified Elek test for detection of heat-labile ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=266859
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Evaluation and optimization of the DNA filter assay for direct ...
Test for Escherichia coli enterotoxin using infant mice: application in a study ... of the Biken test (modified Elek test) for detection of enterotoxigenic ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=268854
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Portal:Music/DateOfBirth/May 22 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dan Roberts, Canadian bassist with Crash Test Dummies, turns 41. ... Elek Bacsik (May 22, 1926 ? February 14, 1993), Hungarian jazz guitarist, would ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Music/DateOfBirth/May_22
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YGR233c_1.br
... 129 # F LE ELEK N +++ +E + I+ L ... F 120 # ++ + +F L ELEK N +Y+ +E D I ... test: 12 Number of HSP's that attempted gapping in prelim test: 2345 Number of ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/COG/grace/bluk.cgi?cog=KOG1161&YGR233c_1
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Polymerase chain reaction for detection of the cholera enterotoxin ...
... obtained by the DNA colony hybridization test with the polynucleotide probe. ... of the Biken test (modified Elek test) for detection of enterotoxigenic ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=270365
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Immunological detection of the Kanagawa phenomenon of vibrio ...
Selective media for Vibrio parahaemolyticus, BTB-Teepol agar and modified ... modified Elek test and immunohalo test with antiserum (or immunoglobulin G) ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=272456
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eMedicine - Corynebacterium Infections : Article by Lynda A Frassetto
Corynebacteria (from the Greek words koryne meaning club and bacterion meaning little rod) are gram-positive, catalase ... Elek plate test for biologic ...
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic459.htm
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Safranin O-stained antigen microagglutination test for detection of ...
Advantages of the microagglutination test were that it required less time to ... Elek P, Vizy L. Annex I. New agglutination methods for the diagnosis of ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=273798
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BU284_1.br
... ELEK ... 531 # R+SEASLV+ELEK+GIGRPSTY++I S IQDRGYV+++ +FYAEKMGEI+T RL ... prelim test: 43 Number of HSP's that attempted gapping in prelim test: 8875 ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/COG/grace/blyz.cgi?cog=BU284_1&raw/BU284_1
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STUDIES ON THE VIRULENCE OF BACTERIOPHAGE-INFECTED STRAINS OF ...
ELEK SD. The serological analysis of mixed flocculating ... Elek, Stephen D. The Plate Virulence Test for Diphtheria. J Clin Pathol. 1949 Nov;2(4):250?258. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=386063
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Detection of toxin production by Corynebacterium diphtheriae: results ...
A MODIFIED ELEK TEST FOR TOXIGENIC CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE. ... Elek, Stephen D. The Plate Virulence Test for Diphtheria. J Clin Pathol. 1949 Nov;2(4):250?258. ...
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CAC1865.br
... KK+ +Y P+ +ELEK # Sbjct: 27 EREKSKELIKEYRTLLQKAIDYLWNLTKIQVRKKNGSYKITLPKKKEVY ... gapped in prelim test: 88 Number of HSP's that attempted gapping in prelim test: ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/COG/grace/blyz.cgi?cog=CAC1865&CAC1865
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YPO0996.br
... 124 MPKDKYEHDSKPFSEMTHAELEKELEYLRAENAYLKK 160 # + + ELEK++ L N LKK # Sbjct: ... prelim test: 48 Number of HSP's that attempted gapping in prelim test: 2500 ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/COG/grace/blyz.cgi?cog=PA0584&YPO0996
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Evaluation of a nonisotopically labeled oligonucleotide probe to detect ...
... stable enterotoxin gene of Escherichia coli by the DNA colony hybridization test. ... of the Biken test (modified Elek test) for detection of enterotoxigenic ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=266450
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Detection with synthetic oligonucleotide probes of nucleotide sequence ...
... of the Biken test (modified Elek test) for detection of enterotoxigenic ... stable enterotoxin gene of Escherichia coli by the DNA colony hybridization test. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=267009
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SPy0148.br
... I+ L+Q + + + LTEY +ELEK + +L + + L A V # Sbjct: 754 ... HSP's that attempted gapping in prelim test: 11635 Number of HSP's gapped (non ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/COG/grace/blyz.cgi?cog=SPy0148&SPy0148
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Differential detection of cholera enterotoxin and Escherichia coli heat ...
... of the Biken test (modified Elek test) for detection of enterotoxigenic ... enterotoxin and application of the test to sampling of heat-stable enterotoxin. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=271406
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Respiratory Diphtheria Caused by Corynebacterium ulcerans -- Terre ...
A rapid screening test for B-hemolytic streptococcal infection was negative. ... by a toxin-antitoxin precipitation assay (Elek test) and by PCR assay on the isolate. ...
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00051752.htm
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Time- and media-saving testing and identification of microorganisms by ...
Elek SD, Higney L. Resistogram typing--a new epidemiological tool: application ... A simple and reliable assimilation test for the identification of candida species. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=275190
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YPO3492.br
... 117 MPKDKYEHDSKPFSEMTHAELEKELEYLRAENAYLKK 153 # + + ELEK++ L N LKK # Sbjct: ... HSP's that attempted gapping in prelim test: 2431 Number of HSP's gapped (non ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/COG/grace/blyz.cgi?cog=YPO3492&YPO3492
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Diphtheria in the Republic of Georgia: Use of Molecular Typing ...
... reported (11, 16) between the results of the Elek test and PCR analysis that ... C, Efstratiou A. A modified Elek test for detection of toxigenic corynebacteria ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=85545
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Use of Molecular Subtyping To Document Long-Term Persistence of ...
The Elek test detects toxin production by the organism in an immunoprecipitation ... All of these strains were identified by the Elek test as nontoxigenic. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pub...
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aq_018a.br
... 68 # +D+R S++ELEK L EL+++L LR+K +V LENP E+R+ +RN+AR+LTV+REK+ # Sbjct: 9 ... prelim test: 55 Number of HSP's that attempted gapping in prelim test: 1694 ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/COG/grace/blyz.cgi?cog=aq_018a&raw/aq_018a
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Well-differentiated neurocytoma: What is the best available treatment?
... by using the Kaplan-Meier method and the log-rank test. ... Elek G, Slowik F, Eross L, Toth S, Szabo Z, Balint K. Central neurocytoma with malignant course. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1871623
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Characterization of new hydrophobic pili of human enterotoxigenic ...
... of the Biken test (modified Elek test) for detection of enterotoxigenic ... A, Wadström T, Hjertén S. A new test based on 'salting out' to measure relative ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=264278
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