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Use of antiserum agar plates for serogrouping of meningococci.

Journal of clinical pathology ·Vol. 30 ·No. 9 ·1977-09-00 ·Pages 834-7

Sivonen A, Renkonen OV, Robbins JB

Abstract

A convenient and reliable method for serogrouping meningococci, based on immunospecific precipitation haloes in antiserum-agar plates, is described. It gave concordant results with conventional slide-agglutination in 900 strains of groups A, B or C tested. The antiserum-agar can also be used as a primary isolation medium for detecting nasopharyngeal carriers of a certain serogroup if antibiotics are added.

MeSH Terms
Agar Humans Immune Sera Neisseria meningitidis/classification Serotyping/methods
Chemicals
Immune Sera Agar
Authors & Affiliations
3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Sivonen A
Renkonen O V
Robbins J B
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of clinical pathology
Abbr.
J Clin Pathol
ISSN
0021-9746
DOI
10.1136/jcp.30.9.834
Published
1977-09-00
Pages
834-7
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
0376601
PMCID
PMC476570
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1136/jcp.30.9.834 PMC Full Text View journal details
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