Affiliation:
1. Department of Biologics Research, Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., Terre Haute, Indiana 47808
Abstract
The standardization, application, and usefulness of latex agglutination for
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
antibody titration were investigated and compared with tetrazolium reduction inhibition and complement fixation. The sera of guinea pigs and monkeys reacted in a specific fashion, whereas rabbit serum required pretreatment to eliminate its nonspecific agglutinin. Human serum given such pretreatment still contained a nonspecific agglutinin. The latex agglutination procedure compared favorably with complement fixation and metabolic inhibition tests for evaluating vaccine antigenicity.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine
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