Gonococcal Complement-fixation Test in Complicated and Uncomplicated Gonorrhoea

Gonococcal Complement-fixation Test in Complicated and Uncomplicated Gonorrhoea.

The complement-fixation reaction with gonococcal antigen (gonococcal complement-fixation test: GCFI) is based on the same serological principle, and has been known for about as long, as the Wassermann reaction. Up to the 1940's the GCFT was widely employed, but as improvements in cultivation techniques for gonococci were developed, interest in the complement-fixation reaction diminished. At pre...

Evaluation of the gonococcal complement-fixation test.

The gonococcal complement-fixation test (GCFT), based on the same principle as the Wassermann reaction (WR), has been in use for over 60 years. The test was applied for the first time, using a culture of the gonococcus as antigen, by Muller and Oppenheim (1906) to establish the diagnosis in a case of arthritis. Teague and Torrey (1907) suggested that negative results in the GCFT were due to dif...

Detection of rotavirus by Latex Agglutination Test (Rotales); Comparison with Electron Microscopy and Complement Fixation Test

Gonorrhoea and non-gonococcal infections.

EPIDEMIOLOGY Gonorrhoea Morbidity.-The number of cases of gonorrhoea officially notified in France has been fairly steady for the past 11 years: 1946: 29,906 1953: 16,151 1957: 15,267 1950: 17,888 1954: 15,959 1958: 14,661 1951: 14,664 1955: 17,15

Quantitative micro-complement fixation test.

A quantitative micro-complement fixation test capable of detecting nanogram quantities of antigen is described. The test is simple to perform and is highly reproducible. Typical results from three antigen-antibody systems are given.