An Overview of Introducing Various Laboratory Tests for Diagnosis of Human Brucellosis in the Republic of Macedonia

Abstract

Methods. Various laboratory tests were implemented in our lab, as screening or confirmatory tests, some in studies some as a routine diagnostic test, such are: Agglutinations tests: Rose Bengal test (RBT), Slide Agglutinations test, Standard tube test (SAT), Wright test, Antihuman globulin test (Coombs); 2-Mercaptoethanol test (2 ME); Complement fixation test (CFT); Indirect enzyme immunoassay (ELISA); Competitive enzyme immunoassay (cELISA); Fluorescent polarization assay (FPA); PCR-based assays from peripheral blood samples.