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A major problem with the mass screening of blood for HTLV antibodies has been the unacceptably high rate of false reactivity associated with commercial HTLV enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits (9). The rate of discarded units subsequent to HTLV screening reached levels of 2.5% when testing first began in 1991. Unfortunately, confirmatory tests have hitherto offered only limited help in solving this problem. Indeed, the Western blotting (WB) confirmatory technology often gives rise to complex reactivity patterns, frequently rendering results inconclusive due to the presence of nonspecific bands. This makes counseling for ELISA-reactive blood donors even more complex and often requires the collection of a second sample for repetition of ELISA and WB.
Criteria for interpreting the results obtained with the INNO-LIA strips; reactivity to none, one, or more of the specified antigens is interpreted as negative, indeterminate, or positive, as assigned. The positive samples are discriminated as HTLV-I or HTLV-II depending on the intensity of the color of the strips; e.g., if the env gp46-1 plus gag p19-1 bands are more intense than the env gp46-2 band, the sample is typed as HTLV-I.
Blood donor samples (the numbers of samples are given in parentheses) were tested by the various assays, as specified (see descriptions in Materials and Methods); the numbers of samples with the indicated results by WB with WB2.3 and WB2.4 (positive, indeterminate, or negative) are also given in parentheses. EBB, Embrabio; EIA, ELISA.
Nevertheless, if upon prospective study the samples with nontypeable but positive patterns by INNO-LIA represented false-reactive samples, more stringent criteria for Brazilian samples could be validated. For instance, in the confirmation module of the INNO-LIA, when the gp21 antigen was not reacting, we observed that truly positive samples reacted at least with the three other antigens (p19, p24, and gp46), while potentially false-reactive samples showed limited reactivities to only two of these antigens. This additional stringency criterion would resolve the results for most of the PCR-negative and INNO-LIA-positive samples. A prospective study by a standardized PCR method can help in further validation of stringency criteria in terms of both sensitivity and specificity. We believe that more stringent criteria might be necessary in tropical areas like Brazil, where a high frequency of nonspecific reactions to HTLV antigens is often reported (2). The screening for infections with virtually all HTLV variants may be compromised by omitting reactivities to the gag antigens. Thus, the samples with indeterminate or positive but nontypeable results by INNO-LIA represent a suitable and focused target in attempts to isolate new hypothetical HTLV strains.
The classic T. pallidum immobilization (Nelson-Mayer) test is no longer routinely used because of its complexity and consequent high cost, and it has largely been replaced by the fluorescent T. pallidum absorption (FTA-ABS) test. However, this confirmatory test can also lead to false-positive or false-negative results if the fluorescence intensity is misinterpreted or if the testing equipment is suboptimal (7). False-positive results have been reported for patients with other spirochetal infections or immunological disorders (e.g., systemic lupus erythematosis, rheumatoid factors, antinuclear and anti-DNA antibodies or cross-reacting antibodies such as those from Borrelia burgdorferi) (4, 7-9, 11, 12, 14). The T. pallidum Western immunoblot assay is also used as an alternative confirmatory test to improve sensitivity and specificity, but indeterminate and false-positive reactivity patterns have been reported (2, 8, 10).
The assay procedure can briefly be described as follows. Serum or plasma samples were diluted 1:100 and incubated at room temperature (20C) overnight, followed by three washing steps with washing buffer before addition of a goat anti-human IgG (heavy and light chains) conjugated to alkaline phosphatase. After incubation, three washing steps were again performed, followed by the addition of a chromogen. Color development was then stopped with an appropriate stop solution. In a visual reading protocol, after color development, each line was compared to the control lines, and the intensities were scored as follows: 0, no line or a line less intense than the cutoff line; 1, a line with an intensity between that of the cutoff line and that of the 1+ control line; 2, a line with an intensity between that of the 1+ control line and that of the 3+ control line; 3, a line equal to that of the 3+ control line; 4, a line with an intensity greater than that of the 3+ control line.
The findings of this study also demonstrate the high number of nonspecific indeterminate IgG-FTA-ABS results for patients with no history of treponemal infection: 27 samples (13%) of the 203 TPHA-negative pregnant women showed 1+ reactivity, and two samples (1%) showed 2+ reactivity. The VDRL test (data not shown) reacted in 24 samples (12%) of the sera from the same panel. For all these sera, the INNO-LIA Syphilis test was clearly negative.
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Interested in American political development and the challenges of public administration, Murtazashvili focuses his research on the relationship governance and legal titling in the developing world. Using the American frontier as an example, he investigates current challenges developing countries face, and how they can improve their prospects for economic development and political stability.
Florida's Republican governor Ron DeSantis, who last year approved legislation banning trans women from high school and college women's sports, even signed a proclamation on Tuesday declaring 500-yard runner-up Emma Weyant the "rightful winner".
Men and women typically have naturally different hormone balances, although there is much variation within each sex. As we grow, those hormones cause our bodies to develop in different ways, which is why male athletes tend to perform at higher levels than female athletes.
Both the NCAA and the Olympics allow trans women to compete in women's events once they have been on HRT for a certain length of time, and as long as tests show their testosterone is below certain levels. There are different rules for trans men, because their pre-HRT performance is similar to cis women and they tend to gain strength and muscle mass from HRT.
Opponents of trans women's inclusion argue that these changes are not enough to erase the natural advantages of growing up with testosterone. The scientific evidence is mixed, and post-HRT trans women do not currently dominate professional sport.
Ms Thomas skipped the 2020-21 swimming season, and so she has now been on HRT for nearly three years. According to Sports Illustrated, she lost strength and an inch of her height on HRT, making it impossible for her to match her performance.
Let's look first at Ms Thomas's record in the NCAA. While some of her fastest times have been in other competitions, these are the easiest results to access and compare across multiple years and athletes.
A whopping 18 of those were broken by Kate Douglass of the University of Virginia (UVA), who now has the fastest times in US college history in the 50 yard freestyle, the 100 yard butterfly stroke, and the 200 yard breaststroke.
According to an Independent search of women's records listed by USA Swimming, the US' national governing body for the sport, Ms Thomas's 500 yard time makes her the 15th fastest college swimmer, about nine seconds behind Katie Ledecky's record in 2017.
The Independent compiled a dataset of swim times for all top 8 NCAA women's finishers over the last six years of competition in various events. 2020 was excluded because all NCAA championships were cancelled that year due to the pandemic.
In other words, this data only includes the absolute best college swimmers in these events. It goes back far enough to cover Katie Ledecky's 4m 24.06s record in the 500 yard race and Missy Franklin's 1m 38.10s record in the 200 yard race, both of which still stand today.
In this field, Ms Thomas's time in the 500 yards is the eighth fastest out of 56. That is notable because there are only seven events in the dataset, meaning there are some where her time would have only place her third.
The Independent also looked at numbers for the 500 yard men's race, where Ms Thomas has competed at a high level in both men's and women's events, from 2015 to 2021. There, her finishing time is more than 20 seconds below the men's average.
Nancy Hogshead-Makar, an Olympic gold medalist swimmer and women's sports activist, wrote that Ms Thomas was "never in that category of standout athlete", while the editor of Swimming World said Ms Thomas had ranked 554th in the men's 200 yard freestyle, 65th in the 500 yard freestyle, and 32nd in the 1650 yard freestyle.
Kyle Sockwell, a former NCAA swimmer who helped draw attention to a fake Twitter account impersonating one of Ms Thomas's NCAA competitors, also noted that her 200 yard freestyle time was not at a full championship competition and was not "tapered", meaning she did not reduce her training to rest just before the race, as many swimmers do to maximise performance. 59ce067264
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