Ross, Martin R. (Connecticut State Department of Health, Hartford) and Earle K. Borman. Direct and indirect fluorescent-antibody techniques for the psittacosis-lymphogranuloma venereum-trachoma group of agents. J. Bacteriol. 85:851-858. 1963.-Direct and indirect fluorescent-antibody (FA) techniques were developed for the detection of group antigen in infected tissue cultures and the titration o...

It has been shown that the polymers GLA5, GLT, GLA40, and GLAT are antigenic in human beings. Both immediate skin reactions and delayed (cellular) reactions were observed. The antibody produced reacted well in the precipitin reaction, agglutinated antigen coated tanned sheep cells, was less effective in inducing PCA reactions, and failed to sensitize guinea pigs for passive systemic anaphylaxis...

background: mild to severe post-transfusion adverse reactions have been reported in a proportion of immunodeficient patients receiving intravenous immunoglobulin (ivig). anti-iga antibody has been proposed to be associated with development of such reactions.   objective: to assess the association between anti-iga levels of different isotypes and adverse reactions induced in immunodeficient pati...

Thirty-two antisera against the hepatitis-associated antigen (HAA) were studied for titer and specificity. Titers were expressed in milligrams of the antigen precipitated by one milliliter of the antiserum. Specificity was investigated by Ouchterlony double diffusion against 40 HAA-positive sera and a serum pool consisting of about 200 HAA-positive specimens. Antiserum titers ranged from 0.04 m...

By ROBERT Siu KE, ROBERTO BENITEZ, WARREN C. EVELAND, JOSEPH H. AKEROYD AND CHARLES J. DUNNE C HEMICAL LINKAGE of fluorescent dyes with antibody allows histologic detection of antigen-antibody reactions. This technic, originally developed by Coons, has been extensively employed to localize the antigens of and antibodies to such diverse substances as bacterial products, viruses, blood group subs...

The pathogenesis of periapical lesions has not been fully elucidated. Currently, the possibility of its being an immunologic phenomenon is receiving much attention. This article presents a review of the literature concerning immunologic reactions which may involve periapical lesions. It appears that antigen-antibody complexes and IgE-mediated reactions can initiate preliminary changes in periap...

Major forces operating in the phenomena of agglutination and precipitation have been recognized for some years, but there are many points bearing upon the intimate mechanism of the union between antigen and antibody that are still obscure. The work here described was concerned with the possible relationship between surface tension and the agglutination of antigen particles. It seems advisable f...

The analysis of 4450 toxoplasma serology results showed that 59 (1.3%) latex agglutination reactions were not confirmed in the dye test. These discrepant results were associated with an unspecified IgM antibody but not associated with kit batch variation, inactivation of sera, concurrent cytomegalovirus infection, or the presence of hepatitis B virus "e" antigen. The latex agglutination test is...

Two techniques are described which enable a rapid diagnosis of herpes simplex keratitis to be made. The tests, antibody/antigen reactions, were shown to be accurate and sensitive in the 119 patients examined. A result is available within four hours with the indirect peroxidase-antiperoxidase method and within one hour with the direct method. The techniques are relatively inexpensive, though lab...

A 22S human gammaM-globulin component has been subjected to various study. It appears to be a dimer of 19S proteins and can undergo reversible molecular transitions which are both pH and temperature dependent. The 22S material regenerated from its 8S subunits no longer undergo similar transformations. Efforts to demonstrate that the 22S material was an antigen-antibody complex of 19S molecules ...