Use of antiserum agar plates for serogrouping of meningococci.
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- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 30 (9) , 834-837
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.30.9.834
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.Keywords
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