Sunday 17 April 2016

Serology can be specific at times

Serology in simple terms is the study of blood serum to find out the antibodies in the blood to fight against the disease. There are many laboratories in Ghaziabad which provides serologic tests to the patients. For more ease, one can download medicosa on their phone and they can easily find out the laboratories providing these tests so that time isn’t wasted and the right thing is achieved!

There are many diseases which are screened but there are possibilities that the results which are obtained might not be correct. For diseases such as tuberculosis or better known as T.B, serology testings are done but it is not worth it. Accurate results are not obtained. serology tests are also known as serodiagnostic tests. These tests basically check the presence of antibodies in the blood.

Hiv can easily be diagnosed via this test but incase of TB it is very difficult. It is not possible to diagnose TB like this! Testing for TB by detecting antibodies in the blood is extremely difficult, it is because many people can have antibody responses in their blood which will show that they have active TB even when they do not have any such diseases. Antibodies are not restricted to TB, they may also develop against other organisms that again could wrongly indicate that they have active TB in blood when it is not actually there. Results are extremely variable in these cases. It is all depended about low sensitivity which indicated false results!
By -Trishala
For more info : Serologist in ghaziabad






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