Patent ID: 7670789

Claim:
An immunoassay test device for detecting the presence of a level of MRP-8/14 that is differentially associated with appendicitis in a sample of blood, plasma or serum from a patient suspected of having appendicitis, said device comprising: a first antibody specific to MRP-8/14; a support for said first antibody; an indictor for detecting binding of said first antibody with said MRP-8/14 when said antibody is in contact with a sample containing said MRP-8/14, said sample being blood, serum or plasma of said patient, wherein said patient is not known to have an interfering condition associated with the presence of elevated MRP-8/14 protein in blood, serum or plasma of said patient, said interfering condition being selected from the group consisting of recent allograft; septicaemia; meningitis; pneumonia; tuberculosis; rheumatoid arthritis; gastrointenstinal cancer; inflammatory bowel disease; skin cancer, periodontitis, preeclampsia, and AIDS; wherein said immunoassay device is capable of detecting a level of MRP-8/14 in said sample higher than 10 micrograms per ml.