Re: What test does signal indicate?

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Sounds like a successful and highly significant investigation. I

wonder why it didnt get published.

It sounds like quantitative PCR (qPCR), but I am not sure whether

that technique existed in 1996. Maybe.

It could also perhaps be an oligonucleotide probe - a specific

fluorescent label used with a light microscope to examine where a

specific RNA sequence is in a sample. An example of this is the FISH

test for babesia. I think(?) that computerized light metering can be

used with this to objectively quantify the amount of fluorescent

labeling coming from the field of view in a light microscope.

> Hi ,

> I have one question, which I will get to eventually. My daughter's

> blood (and mine, as one of about 10 healthy controls) was tested by

> Stratton for Chlamydia pneumoniae back about 1996. We were tested

as

> part of a study that was never published.

>

> There were 10 people with CFS in my daughter's group. Dr. Stratton

> didn't know who the sick people were and he didn't know who the

healthy

> people were. But my daughter's doctor knew, and Stratton got it

> right--separated the two groups by looking at their blood.

>

> Stratton also didn't know who the sickest people in the sick group

> were, but he ranked them in order, and again he got it right. The

> doctor said that Stratton correctly ranked my daughter as the most

> severely ill.

> He said that her blood gave the strongest signal.

>

> So here's my question: What kind of test did he do? Can you tell

from

> the word " signal? " Can anyone here tell?

>

> Sue ,

> Upstate New York

>