THE COMPLEMENT-FIXATION TEST IN SYPHILIS

some remarks about m. c. f. and other methods of complement fixation test for syphilis

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Advantage of a routine Reiter protein complement-fixation test in the serodiagnosis of syphilis in pregnancy.

One hundred and twenty-seven (0.3%) reactive serological tests for syphilis were obtained by routine examination of sera from 35,912 antenatal patients.Forty-eight (38%) of these reactive sera were associated with reactive fluorescent treponemal antibody and Treponema pallidum immobilization results and these patients were therefore considered to show serological evidence of treponemal infectio...

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

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.

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...