It employs a dual mechanism of action, combining immunotherapeutic effects through complement fixation and phagocytosis with intrinsic antibacterial properties, within a single molecule.

The current complement fixation for avian leukosis (COFAL) test for screening veterinary vaccines requires a 21-day maintenance period of chick embryo (CE) cell cultures. The method described requires ...

Sera were collected from female cattle in 118 commercial herds being subjected to a programme to eradicate brucellosis by test and slaughter, in an area in which vaccination of heifer calves with ...

The complement-fixation tests, with antigens 20aand 30, failed to support the previous report of Roach et al., 13 who had found that fixation occurred in 77 per cent of cases of multiple sclerosis ...

A nucleoprotein complement-fixation titer was 1:27, and the 1st positive L.E.-cell preparation was reported subsequently. She was placed on corticosteroids and soon went into clinical remission.

NORMAL guinea pig serum is the most common source of complement for the complement-fixation test, and may be used fresh or, more commonly, preserved either by freeze-drying or by Richardson's ...

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.