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The Value of Non-specific Agglutination in the Differentiation of the Genus Brucella

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

G. R Ross
G. R Ross
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(Rhodesian Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.)
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(1) Non-specific agglutination as tested by thermo-agglutination, peptone agglutination, lactic acid agglutination and Michaelis' acid agglutination falied in the primary object of differentiating between Br. melitensis and Br. abortus.

(2) Thermo-agglutination was only observed in strains of Br. paramelitensis.

(3) With peptone agglutination no strain gave a positive result.

(4) The results of lactic acid agglutination and Michaelis' acid agglutination ran practically parallel. No distinction could be observed between Br. melitensis and Br. abortus. Strains of both of remote origin gave slight agglutination with lactic acid while recently isolated strains of Br. abortus were negative. Very definite agglutination, however, was observed by both methods with paramelitensis and paraabortus strains, but no differentiation was possible between such strains.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , August 1927 , pp. 279 - 284
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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