Plaque Assay for Measuring Serum Bactericidal Activity Against Gonococci
- 1 November 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 8 (5) , 618-620
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.8.5.618-620.1978
Abstract
A new semiquantitative plaque assay was developed to measure killing of gonococci by serum. Results compare well with an established quantitative method, but the plaque assay is faster, simpler and less expensive.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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