Lowering the price of fruits and vegetables by 30 percent can save nearly 200,000 lives over 15 years â roughly the population of Des Moines, Iowa. That's the message being touted by researchers this week at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology meeting in Phoenix. We know eating more fruits and vegetables is good for your heart.
ELISA is a popular format of wet-lab type analytic biochemistry assay that uses a solid-phase enzyme immunoassay (EIA) to detect the presence of a substance, usually an antigen, in a liquid sample or wet sample.
Because of their low sensitivity, enzyme immunoassay (EIA) tests are no longer recommended for detection of C. difficile toxin in stool specimens.1 Recent literature indicates that nucleic acid amplification-based assays provide sensitivities and specificities comparable to toxigenic culture, the current âgold standardâ and provide significantly ...