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. 1948 Nov 1;88(5):521–528. doi: 10.1084/jem.88.5.521

SPECIFIC SERUM AGGLUTINATION OF ERYTHROCYTES SENSITIZED WITH EXTRACTS OF TUBERCLE BACILLI

Gardner Middlebrook 1, René J Dubos 1
PMCID: PMC2135841  PMID: 18892427

Abstract

A hemagglutination reaction has been described between sheep erythrocytes treated with a component of a polysaccharide fraction of mammalian tubercle bacilli and the sera of experimental animals or of tuberculous patients. Evidence has been presented for the specificity of this reaction. A modification of the test, involving an inhibition reaction, has been developed for the detection and quantitation of minute amounts of the material responsible for the hemagglutination reaction.

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