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. 1977 Sep;30(9):834-7.
doi: 10.1136/jcp.30.9.834.

Use of antiserum agar plates for serogrouping of meningococci

A Sivonen, O V Renkonen, J B Robbins

Use of antiserum agar plates for serogrouping of meningococci

A Sivonen et al. J Clin Pathol. 1977 Sep.

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.

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