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Revision as of 02:36, 14 September 2015
Current Disease Detection Methods:
Technological advancements in serological and molecular laboratory techniques have reduced the time and effort required to test for high profile diseases such as malaria, and tuberculosis, as well as neglected tropical diseases such as trypanosomiasis (chagas disease), dengue fever, and cysticercosis.
Parasitic Diseases
Immunofluorescence Antibody Assay (IFA) and Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Test (IFAT):
These tests both rely on the use of fluorescently tagged antibodies binding to targets to report antigen presence. In immunofluorescence antibody assays, a specifically chosen primary fluorescently tagged antibody binds directly to an antigen of interest1 antibody tests, a specific primary antibody is bound to a target antigen while another fluorescently tagged secondary antibody binds to the primary antibody1 fluorescent signal would suggest the binding of antibodies to their specific antigens and a diagnosis for that disease could be made.