Definition of serodiagnosis in English:
serodiagnosis
nounˌsɪərəʊdʌɪəˈɡnəʊsɪsˌsirōˌdīəɡˈnōsəs
mass nounMedicine Diagnosis based on the study of blood sera.
Example sentencesExamples
- At present, serodiagnosis does not have any role in diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis.
- Protective antigen of Bacillus anthracis is the central moiety of the anthrax toxin complex and it elicits antibody response useful for serodiagnosis of the disease.
- For the serodiagnosis of group A streptococcal infections and their late sequelae, a battery of tests have been suggested.
- Various diagnostic techniques such as improved culture techniques, serodiagnosis, and nucleic acid amplification have been developed and evaluated to improve diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis.
- The study reported in this issue on serodiagnosis of dengue infection in a tertiary care hospital in Delhi is a timely reminder of the required extent of monitoring.
Derivatives
adjective
Medicine The leptospiral antigens that are conserved among the diverse pathogenic leptospires have potential importance in the development of new serodiagnostic and immunoprotective strategies.
Example sentencesExamples
- For this reason, there is intense interest in leptospiral membrane proteins for development of accurate serodiagnostic tests and effective vaccines for protection of at risk individuals.
- For the development of new serodiagnostic tests that can be utilized for early diagnosis as well as for seroepidemiological surveys an antigen, which is highly conserved among the diverse pathogenic leptospires, should be selected.
- It is also possible that additional leptospiral proteins selectively expressed during infection may prove to be even better serodiagnostic or immunoprotective antigens than proteins expressed by cultivated organisms.
- The diagnostic utility of serodiagnostic methods applied to the blood samples in patients with EPTB is controversial.