The immunological relationship of the vaccina and pig pox viruses demonstrated by gel diffusion.

  • 1 January 1958
    • journal article
    • Vol. 1  (1) , 81-6
Abstract
The Ouchterlony double diffusion method in agar gel has been used to study the antigens of the vaccinia and pig pox viruses and their corresponding antibodies. The existence of a common antigenic constituent in the two viruses has been demonstrated. The sensitivity of the method was found to be adequate for sera giving complement fixation titres of 1/80. The complications arising from the presence of antibodies to heterologous (host) antigens are illustrated.