Ludwig Tessnow
"Precipitin Test". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 30 October 2018. Evans, Colin (1996). The Casebook of Forensic Detection: ... This forensic testing ultimately proved Tessnow's guilt.: 202 The tests conducted by biologist Paul Uhlenhuth upon Tessnow's ... the precipitin test. Uhlenhuth had been an assistant since 1899 at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Greifswald. ... pioneering precipitin testing enabled investigators to prove his clothing had been extensively stained with both human and ...
Lucy Graves Taliaferro
They traveled three times to Panama to study malaria and on other trips they worked on a precipitin test for malaria and tests ... A precipitin test in malaria. J. Prev. Med., 1:343-57. Trypanosomiasis. In: A Textbook of Medicine, 2d ed., ed. R. L. Cecil, pp ... A precipitin test in malaria; Second report. J. Prev. Med., 2:147-67. 1929 With W. H. Taliaferro. Acquired immunity in avian ... Complement fixation, precipitin, adhesion, mercuric chloride and Wassermann tests in equine trypanosomiasis of Panama (murrina ...
Trichoniscus pusillus
doi:10.1078/S0031-4056(04)70029-3. S. L. Sutton (1970). "Predation on woodlice; an investigation using the precipitin test". ...
Tobacco smoking
Guinan, M. E.; Portas, M. R.; Hill, H. R. (1979). "The candida precipitin test in an immunosuppressed population". Cancer. 43 ( ... A current study tested the relation of adolescent smoking to rules regulating where adults are allowed to smoke in the home. ...
Coccidioidomycosis
The available tests include the tube-precipitin (TP) assays, complement fixation assays, and enzyme immunoassays. TP antibody ... and a serum precipitin test was developed by Charles E. Smith that was able to detect an acute form of the infection. In ... Inmates Should Be Tested for Valley Fever Immunity". California HealthLine. July 28, 2014. Shehab, Ziad M. (2010). " ... Presently, Meridian Bioscience manufactures the so-called EIA test to diagnose the Valley fever, which however is known for ...
George Stuart Graham-Smith
... a demonstration of certain blood-relationships amongst animals by means of the precipitin test for blood. Cambrisge: The ... He emphasised the importance of testing the virulence of the bacilli found, as well as identification based on morphology and ... He describes the measures taken to deal with the outbreak, which included treatment with antitoxin, bacteriological testing of ... a finding that supported a policy based on isolating and testing diphtheria contacts. During this period, Graham-Smith ...
Hattie Alexander
Hattie noted that those with a positive precipitin test result had a higher rate of mortality than those with a negative result ... was able to successfully identify in one of her early studies the prognostic ability of cerebrospinal fluid in precipitin tests ...
George Nuttall
... a demonstration of certain blood-relationships amongst animals by means of the precipitin test for blood. Cambbridge University ... In a major work Blood immunity and blood relationship Nuttall and his colleagues presented the data from over 16,000 tests with ... Boyden, A.A. (1926). "The precipitin reaction in the study of animal relationships". The Biological Bulletin. 50 (2): 73-107. ... Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner (1902). "The new biological test for blood in relation to zoological classification". ...
Precipitin
Precipitins at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Precipitin+tests at the U.S. National ... A precipitin is an antibody which can precipitate out of a solution upon antigen binding. The precipitin reaction provided the ... To produce a precipitin reaction, varying amounts of soluble antigen are added to a fixed amount of serum containing antibody. ... The precipitin reaction is based upon the interaction of antigen with antibody leading to the production of antigen-antibody ...
Uhlenhuth test
The Uhlenhuth test, also referred to as the antigen-antibody precipitin test for species, is a test which can determine the ... "The Precipitin Test". prezi.com. Retrieved 2017-12-17. (Articles with short description, Short description matches Wikidata, ... The test represented a major breakthrough and came to have tremendous importance in forensic science in the 20th century. The ... test was further refined for forensic use by the Swiss chemist Maurice Müller in the 1960s. Michael Kurland, Irrefutable ...
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
IgG antibody precipitin testing from serum is useful, as positive results are found in between 69 and 90% of patients, though ... The test should be performed first by skin prick testing, and if negative followed with an intradermal injection. The overall ... Culturing fungi from sputum is a supportive test in the diagnosis of ABPA, but is not 100% specific for ABPA as A. fumigatus is ... Minimal criteria include five factors: the presence of asthma and/or cystic fibrosis, a positive skin test to Aspergillus sp., ...
List of MeSH codes (E05)
... precipitin tests MeSH E05.478.605.492.300 - flocculation tests MeSH E05.478.605.492.350 - immunodiffusion MeSH E05.478.605.492. ... neutralization tests MeSH E05.196.922.750 - potentiometry MeSH E05.196.922.875 - skin test end-point titration MeSH E05.196. ... limulus test MeSH E05.200.875.220 - colony count, microbial MeSH E05.200.875.595 - microbial sensitivity tests MeSH E05.200. ... serum bactericidal test MeSH E05.337.550.600 - parasitic sensitivity tests MeSH E05.337.800.120 - adverse drug reaction ...
Paul Uhlenhuth
He is famous in the annals of forensic science for developing the species precipitin test, known as the Uhlenhuth test, which ... Those experiments involved immunisation trials and blood tests on members of other than white ethnic groups. The latest ... These defensive substances were named precipitins. Other scientists principally Jules Bordet tried devising serums against ... other infectious agents; They found that the precipitins were specific to the antagonist injected. In 1900, building off ...
Forensic science
The Uhlenhuth test, or the antigen-antibody precipitin test for species, was invented by Paul Uhlenhuth in 1901 and could ... So sensitive was the test, known formally as the Marsh test, that it could detect as little as one-fiftieth of a milligram of ... The test represented a major breakthrough and came to have tremendous importance in forensic science. The test was further ... It is thought that these tests had some validity since a guilty person would produce less saliva and thus have a drier mouth; ...
Nephelometry (medicine)
... to measure the growth of microorganisms and to test drug solubility. Nephelometer Precipitin reaction Turbidimetry MedlinePlus ... In the Immunology Medical Lab, two types of tests can be run: "end point nephelometry" and "kinetic (rate) nephelometry". End ... Immunologic tests, Aerosol measurement, All stub articles, Immunology stubs). ... point nephelometry tests are run by allowing the antibody/antigen reaction to run through to completion (until all of the ...
List of MeSH codes (E01)
... neutralization tests MeSH E01.450.495.735.550.750 - skin test end-point titration MeSH E01.450.495.735.645 - precipitin tests ... intradermal tests MeSH E01.370.750.300.400 - kveim test MeSH E01.370.750.300.750 - skin test end-point titration MeSH E01.370. ... intradermal tests MeSH E01.450.495.750.300.540 - kveim test MeSH E01.450.495.750.300.750 - skin test end-point titration MeSH ... hemagglutination tests MeSH E01.450.495.735.050.375.150 - coombs test MeSH E01.450.495.735.050.450 - latex fixation tests MeSH ...
Radial immunodiffusion
The antigen is quantitated by measuring the diameter of the precipitin circle and comparing it with the diameters of precipitin ... The immunoglobulin levels in this test serum lay in the middle range of the calibration lines. The accuracy of the method ... diameters of precipitin circles on a best-fit semi-logarithmic plot. Measuring circles after all reach their end points ( ... Photograph of precipitin circles in a Petri dish during radial immunodiffusion. (CS1 errors: periodical ignored, Articles with ...
Elek's test
The presence of precipitin lines indicates that the strain produced toxin that reacted with the antitoxin. The test was ... Elek's test or the Elek plate test is an in vitro test of virulence performed on specimens of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the ... diphtheriae specimens compared with previous tests. It also allowed an in vitro test to replace a clinical test on laboratory ... It is used to test for toxigenicity of C. diphtheriae strains. The test uses immunodiffusion. A strip of filter paper ...
Immunodiffusion
... is a diagnostic test which involves diffusion through a substance such as agar which is generally soft gel agar ... Photograph of precipitin circles in a Petri dish during radial immunodiffusion. "Diffusion Patterns". Immunodiffusion ... Photographs of Ouchterlony immunodiffusion patterns showing stained precipitin lines of full identity, partial identity and non ... "Use of the Immunodiffusion Test in the Serodiagnosis of Aspergillosis". Applied Microbiology. 23 (2): 301-308. doi:10.1128/am. ...
Ouchterlony double immunodiffusion
The immune complex precipitates in the gel to give a thin white line (precipitin line), which is a visual signature of antigen ... The technique is named after Örjan Ouchterlony, the Swedish physician who developed the test in 1948 to evaluate the production ... ISBN 978-0-89603-338-2. Ouchterlony, Örjan (1948). "In vitro method for testing the toxin-producing capacity of diphtheria ... Photographs of Ouchterlony immunodiffusion patterns showing stained precipitin lines of full identity, partial identity and non ...
Michael Heidelberger
He and his collaborators Forrest E. Kendall (1899-1987) and Elvin A. Kabat formulated a quantitative theory of precipitin and ... which was successfully tested among Army Air Force recruits in 1944. Upon his retirement from Columbia in 1954, Heidelberger ... in particular the precipitin reaction, for isolating pure antibodies, which he proved were protein and which he measured in ... Heidelberger quickly realized that Meltzer was testing his commitment to science, and he insisted that he wanted to become a ...
Manfred M. Mayer
The test greatly reduces false-positive diagnoses of syphilis. Nelson and Mayer also developed Nelson-Mayer basal medium for ... Mayer published several papers on precipitin reactions and the cross-reactivity of various polysaccharides in the envelope of ... Robert Armstrong Nelson and Mayer developed the eponymous Nelson-Mayer test, which enables diagnosis of syphilis based on the ...
Egg drop syndrome
However, proper laboratory testing is still needed to eliminate doubts for a definitive diagnosis. Serological testing can ... 1976). "Dropped Egg Production, Soft Shelled and Shell-less Eggs Associated with Appearance of Precipitins to Adenovirus in ... The use of sentinel birds (non-vaccinated susceptible birds) in the flocks is also useful for early detection and tested for ... Identification of the virus can also be detected by Polymerase Chain Reaction-based test. There is no treatment for EDS '76, ...
Index of immunology articles
... caseosa Viral phylodynamics Virus quantification Voltage-gated proton channel Wheat germ agglutinin White blood cell Widal test ... 13 Platelet factor 4 Pleocytosis Polyclonal antibodies Polyclonal B cell response Polymersome Pox party Precipitin Premunition ...
Counterimmunoelectrophoresis
Immunologic tests, Blood tests, All stub articles, Immunology stubs). ... or a precipitin line, indicating binding. Electrophoresis Immunoelectrophoresis Ling IT.; Cooksley S.; Bates PA.; Hempelmann E ...