Novel Immunoblot Assay Using Four Recombinant Antigens for Diagnosis of Epstein-Barr Virus Primary Infection and Reactivation

A new immunoblot assay, composed of four Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-encoded recombinant proteins (virus capsid antigen [VCA] p23, early antigen [EA] p138, EA p54, and EBNA-1 p72), was compared with an immunofluorescence assay on a total of 291 sera. The test was accurate in 94.5% of cases of primary EBV infection, while an immunoglobulin G anti-VCA p23 band with strong intensity correlated with reactivation

Intensification/Diversification-Driven ILS for a Graph Coloring Problem

International audienceThis paper presents an extension of the ILS algorithm, called ID-ILS, by introducing new local search devices that enforce an efficient tradeoff of intensification and diversification. Experiments performed on the DIMACS benchmarks show that our method is competitive with the best coloring algorithms