Affiliation:
1. Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30333
Abstract
A direct fluorescent-antibody (FA) test was developed to detect
Chlamydia psittaci
in dural impressions from specimen-inoculated mice. Technical procedures for the test were compared.
C. psittaci
was found in mice after infection as early by the FA technique as it was by cytochemical staining methods usually used. The lymphogranuloma venereum organism was also stained by conjugated antibody to
C. psittaci
. A distinctive advantage of the described FA test is that organisms are identified immunologically as members of the genus
Chlamydia
simultaneously with their detection.
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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