BY5.2 Fertility and Pregnancy Testing

Sub Fertility:

• difficulty conceiving naturally can occur due to reasons affecting one or both partners
• infertiity is the inability to conceive a child

• greatest of female infertility is due to the inability to ovulate or irregualr menstrual cycles
• 95% of the time cases are treatable with the drug clomiphene
• blockage of the fallopian tube can also cause an issue as it prevents the passage of the ovum to the site of fertilisation in the fallopian tube
• this can be caused by an infection and treatment usually involves microsurgery

Pregnancy testing:

• most pregnancy tests use monoclonal antibodies to test for the presence of HCG in urine
• monoclonal anibody responds to…