A gamma-globulin factor in the serum of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus that reacts with isolated cell nuclei 1 or nucleoprotein 2,3 has been detected in many ways. 4 The standard method of ...

MULTIPLE sclerosis was recognized as a clinical entity early in the nineteenth century by Charcot. Since then its pathology and clinical symptomatology have been defined, but the etiology of this ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The very sensitive latex slide agglutination test is simpler than most other serological procedures for the diagnosis of hydatid disease.

Good antibody responses usually follow infection with Campylobacter jejuni. A comparison of agglutination, complement fixation and immunofluorescence tests was done on 55 sera from 40 sporadic ...

Serra, Guarini et al. 1 suggested in 1958 a peculiar complement-fixation test as a very selective serological technique for identifying the blood sera of carriers of malignant tumours. You have full ...

NORMAL guinea pig serum is the most common source of complement for the complement-fixation test, and may be used fresh or, more commonly, preserved either by freeze-drying or by Richardson's method 1 ...