Infantile gastroenteritis virus antigens in stools were titrated by the immune adherence hemagglutination test. A good correlation was observed between immune adherence hemagglutination titers and electron microscope counts.

Purified chlamydial elementary bodies were subjected to sonic lysis to produce soluble antigen for passive hemagglutination (PHA). PHA was more sensitive than complement fixation (CF) in detecting antibody in hyperimmunized rabbits, lambs, and calves. Both CF and PHA tests were used to monitor antibody responses in experimentally infected pregnant cows. All animals responded with rises in titer...

In an effort to obtain the flexibility and ease of performance of a rapid, serological test for detection of cytomegalovirus antibody, the indirect hemagglutination (IHA) technique was investigated by using a microserological system. Antigens were prepared from tissue cultures of infected human fibroblasts. The specificity of the cytomegalovirus antibody response detected by the IHA test correl...

An indirect hemagglutination test has been adapted for use with varicella-zoster serology. Antigen was made in infected WI-38 human diploid cell line. The indirect hemagglutination antigen seemed to be a subunit of the virus particle. The antibodies measured in the test are well correlated with neutralizing and complement-fixing antibodies in cases of zoster but not in cases of varicella.

The hemagglutination test in the diagnosis of active tuberculosis has been the subject of considerable study since it was first described by Middlebrook and Dubos in 1948.’ Because of conflicting reports by various workers, the value of the test as a diagnostic tool has not been clearly defined. The present study was undertaken for the purpose of investigating the sensitivity and the specificit...

BACKGROUND Burkholderia pseudomallei is an environmental Gram-negative bacillus and the cause of melioidosis. B. thailandensis, some strains of which express a B. pseudomallei-like capsular polysaccharide (BTCV), is also commonly found in the environment in Southeast Asia but is considered non-pathogenic. The aim of the study was to determine the distribution of B. thailandensis and its capsula...

In Robert Provine's review of Ha: The Science of When We Laugh and Why and The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny, he leans on his own analysis of simple instincts such as laughing and yawning and his research for his own book, Laughter: A Scientific Investigation.

Sera (920) were tested to evaluate the use of heated versus unheated sera in the hemagglutination treponemal test for syphilis. The heated and unheated samples were tested on the same day with the hemagglutination treponemal test for syphilis kit according to the manufacturer's protocol. Agreement of results between the heated and unheated sera was 99.2%. The reading pattern of agglutination wa...

Immune adherence hemagglutination was compared with the complement fixation test as a means of measuring antibodies to varicella-zoster virus. Analysis of acute- and convalescent-phase sera from patients infected with varicella-zoster or with herpes simplex virus showed the immune adherence hemagglutination test to be more sensitive than the complement fixation test, and greater cross-reactivit...