Nature

Foot and Mouth Disease Virus RNA as an Antigenic Factor in the Complement-fixation Reaction Applied to the Examination of Human Tumours

Serra, Guarini et al. 1 suggested in 1958 a peculiar complement-fixation test as a very selective serological technique for identifying the blood sera of carriers of malignant tumours. You have full ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Attempted Cultivation of Spirochaeta Myelophthora and a Test of the Validity of the Complement-Fixation Test in Multiple Sclerosis

MULTIPLE sclerosis was recognized as a clinical entity early in the nineteenth century by Charcot. Since then its pathology and clinical symptomatology have been defined, but the etiology of this ...
Nature

Quantitative Evaluation of Immunological Reactivity of Carriers of Malignant Tumours against Foot and Mouth Disease Virus RNA by the Complement Fixation Reaction

Serra, Guarini, Guidetti, Maisin and Deckers 1 recently suggested the serological utilization of bovine foot and mouth disease (FMD) virus RNA as the antigenic component in the complement fixation ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

The Latex-Fixation Reaction in Nonrheumatic Diseases

THE serum agglutinating factor for amboceptor-sensitized or FII (fraction II)-coated erythrocytes and latex particles is still thought to be specific for rheumatoid arthritis and closely allied ...