SEROLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF MODERN CHOLERA USING LIPOSOMAL ENTEROTOXIC DIAGNOSTICUM IN COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST

A short, reliable, highly reproducible complement fixation test for the serological diagnosis of contagious equine metritis.

A complement fixation test, using round-bottomed microtitration plates and an 8 channel microdiluter, based on that used for brucellosis by Herr, Huchzermeyer, Te Brugge, Williamson, Roos & Schiele, 1985, has been developed for use on the sera of horses to detect antibodies to the contagious equine metritis organism. The results with 2 known positive sera tested 116 times in 27 separate tests w...

Serological diagnosis of Bacteroides fragilis infections by a complement fixation test.

Paired specimens of serum from patients from whom Bacteroides fragilis had been isolated were tested by complement fixation against a crude B. fragilis antigen. A high titre or a rise in titre to B. fragilis was obtained in each of five patients with infection after abdominal surgery but in none of 11 patients with postpartum pyrexia nor in nine with vaginitis.

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

Complement fixation test for the diagnosis of Lyme disease.

Sera from 43 patients were tested for complement-fixing antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi; these patients included 8 with confirmed Lyme disease, 21 who were serologically positive but not likely to have Lyme disease, and 14 who were serologically negative. Seven individuals, all confirmed Lyme disease patients, had complement-fixing antibodies. Complement fixation may be a useful confirmatory...

Assessment of the Reiter Protein Complement-fixation (rpcf) Test in a Routine Serological

At St. Thomas's Hospital we were led to try the RPCF test by the preliminary report of De Bruijn (1957), in which he showed with 116 syphilitic sera that this test was considerably more sensitive than the Wassermann reaction (WR). The technique appeared simple, the antigen was available commercially and the test was in no way difficult for the routine laboratory. De Bruijn gave no precise detai...