Human Mumps IgM ELISA kit

Specifications

Product Data
Description	Human Mumps IgM ELISA kit
Size	1 x 96 wells
Format	8x12 divisible strips
Assay Type	Solid Phase Sandwich ELISA
Assay Length	3 hours
Signal	Colorimetric
Sample Type	Serum
Sample Volume	10 µl/well
Specificity	This kit is used for quantitative detection human Mumps IgM
Reactivity	Human
Cross Reactivity	There is no detectable cross-reactivity with other relevant proteins.
Interference	No significant interference observed with available related molecules.
Components	1. Microwells coated with Mumps antigen: 12x8x1 2. Sample Diluent: 1 bottle (ready to use): 22 ml 3. Calibrator: 1 Vial (ready to use): 1ml 4. Positive Control: 1 vial (ready to use): 1ml 5. Negative Control: 1 vial (ready to use): 1ml 6. Enzyme conjugate: 1 bottle (ready to use): 12ml 7. TMB Substrate: 1 bottle (ready to use): 12ml 8. Stop Solution: 1 bottle (ready to use): 12ml 9. Wash concentrate 20X: 1 bottle: 25ml
Background	Infection with Mumps virus causes fever, headache, and swelling and tenderness of the salivary glands. Most adults born before 1957 have been infected naturally and are probably immune. Mumps can occur in unimmunized children, or adolescents and young adults who graduated from school prior to the law requiring mumps immunization. About 1/3 of people have no symptoms. The first symptoms usually appear 16 to 18 days after exposure. It begins with fever and pain upon opening the mouth or eating. Possible complications include meningitis (swelling of the covering of the brain and spinal cord), encephalitis (swelling of the brain), deafness, and in adult males, swelling of the testicles. The virus may cause a miscarriage if a woman becomes infected during the first three months of pregnancy. Mumps IgM antibodies by ELISA are present in serum of 72% of patients by day 2 of clinical illness and in essentially all patients after day 5. A significant increase in titer of mumps IgG by ELISA is found in over 90% of paired acute and convalescent mumps sera in which mumps IgM antibodies can also be found. Increases in mumps antibody titers in paired acute and convalescent sera are valuable for confirmation of acute infection even in the presence of specific IgM antibodies because 50% of patients still have elevated levels of reactive IgM 5 or more months after clinical mumps. In mumps meningitis, the Mumps IgG Antibody Index is increased in about 83% of patients and the Mumps IgM Antibody Index is increased in about 67% of those with detectable IgM in the CSF.

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