Advanced Laboratory Investigations Conducted at Medical Research Unit Laboratory, MHWT, Uttara Model Town, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abstract

Since the establishment of radioimmunoassay (RIA), enzyme immunoassay (EIA), discovery of monoclonal antibody (MCA) and fluorescence activated cell sorter (FACS), tremendous progress have been made in the field of diagnostic immunology. MCA based advanced techniques such as RIA, EIA, FACS, nephelometry, immunofluorescence technique, immunochromatographic technique (ICT), etc are presently used in modern diagnostic immunology. With the application of these powerful techniques, laboratory diagnosis and follow-up of immunologically-mediated as well as other diseases are made now-a-days with high precision and accuracy [1-6]. Immunology laboratory were reorganized and more versatile tests were introduced at the Medical College for Women & Hospital (MCW&H) in August 2002. The idea was to provide high quality laboratory service for specialized diagnostic immunology tests in a cost effective way. In 2005 Medical Research Unit (MRU) had been set up in at MCW&H building to conduct high quality clinical and biomedical research and provide further specialized biochemical and immunological laboratory tests at affordable costs. Many diagnostic tests were introduced and carried out regularly at MRU (Diagnostic) Laboratory to confirm and pinpoint the clinical (provisional) diagnosis of human diseases. The analysis of the results of some advanced laboratory investigations