Havens' haemagglutination test in infective hepatitis.

Havens' haemagglutination test in infective hepatitis.

Treponemal haemagglutination test.

The introduction of the treponemal immobilization (TPI) test by Nelson and Mayer (1949) provided the first verification test for syphilis which proved fully acceptable to the clinician. After 20 years it is still accepted by a large body of opinion as the verification test of choice for the diagnosis of latent and late syphilis. The test's characteristic of becoming positive towards the end of ...

A haemagglutination and haemagglutination inhibition test for bluetongue virus.

Haemagglutination of bluetongue virus (BTV) was demonstrated for the first time by making use of a purified preparation of the virus. The reaction was found to be independent of variations in the pH, temperature, buffer system and origin of the erythrocytes used in the test. A haemagglutination inhibition test, subsequently developed, was demonstrated to be serotype specific. The storage of the...

An epidemiological study of haemagglutination in hepatitis.

An epidemiological study of 36 U.S. Marines living in a barracks and exposed to infectious hepatitis was made, and the ability of their sera to agglutinate day-old chick erythrocytes was found to be abnormally high in 52.8% of the group. The other groups of American Servicemen similarly exposed showed no such deviation from the normally expected incidence of raised titres. An unexplained, abnor...

Infective Hepatitis

This disease is also known as ' epidemic Patarrhal jaundice', 'acute infective hepatitis' ari(l ' epidemic infective hepatitis.' During this war, great interest lias been sho-tyn in this disease by the medical profession owing 'to various problems presented which had J? be solved quickly. It broke out in epidemic *orm among the Middle East forces, affecting n?t only the Allies but the enemy as ...