Generation and management of household municipal solid wastes in extension
and town areas of Tiruvarur, Tamilnadu, Southern India
Abstract :
Sera from seventy-five patients with suspected leptospiral infection were examined for anti-leptospiral antibodies with three serodiagnostic techniques, viz., microscopic agglutination test (MAT), macroscopic slide agglutination test (MSAT) and enzyme linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA). Primarily, MAT was employed to elucidate the serotypic identity of the leptospiral pathogen with the detection of serotype specific antibodies in the patient’s serum. Thirty nine percent of the MAT positive sera had anti L. autmnalis antibodies. High degree of correlation (r = 0.97) existed between MAT and ELISA anti-leptospiral antibody titers. But, ELISA showed slightly higher seropositivity (84%) compared to MSAT (81%) and MAT (79%). Even though MSAT is a subjective technique, on the basis of its cost and simple procedure, it can be used as a base line or presumptive serodiagnostic technique to detect the presence of anti-leptospiral antibodies in a patient’s serum.
Keywords:
ELISA, leptospirosis, MAT, MSAT, serodiagnosis
Citation: *,
(
2015),
Generation and management of household municipal solid wastes in extension
and town areas of Tiruvarur, Tamilnadu, Southern India.
Scientific Transactions in Environment and Technovation,
3(3):
107-115
Correspondence: G. Arunachalam