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.
1 A positive EIA test should be confirmed with either the VDRL or RPR tests. 2  Fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption (FTA-ABS) test. 3  This test also checks for antibodies. 4  It can be used to find syphilis except during the first 3 to 4 weeks after exposure.5  The test can be done on a sample of blood or spinal fluid.ests used to confirm a syphilis infection include: 1  Enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test. 2  This blood test checks for syphilis antibodies. 3  A positive EIA test should be confirmed with either the VDRL or RPR tests.