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Upon the Agglutinin Test in the diagnosis of Tuberculosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

J. T. Wigham
J. T. Wigham
Affiliation:
Assistant to Prof. of Pathology, Trinity College, Dublin. From the Bacteriological Laboratory, Lister Institute.
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In 1898 Arloing and Courmont published the results of experiments made by them on the agglutination produced by the serum of tubercular patients. For this purpose they used a strain of the tubercle bacillus isolated by the former, which produced a uniform turbidity when grown in glycerine broth. With this culture, serum from tubercular patients gave reactions at dilutions of 1 in 5, 10 or 20 in a large percentage of cases, and that from normal individuals only in a much smaller percentage and then not very strongly. From this they concluded that the agglutination reaction was likely to be of considerable use in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 1906 , pp. 212 - 214
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1906

References

1 Comptes rendus de l'acad. des Sciences, 19 Sept. 1898, and Gazette des Hôpitaux, 1 Dec. 1900, p. 1467.

2 Deutsche Med. Wochenschr. 28 11. 1901.Google Scholar