A resolution of the significance of low titers of brucella agglutinins in symptomatic and asymptomatic subjects appeared possible as a result of previous investigations on brucella agglutinins in ...

THE favorable influence of aureomycin on the course of primary atypical pneumonia has raised the question whether this antibiotic affects the development of cold agglutinins. The characteristic ...

Most people do not like cold weather. After all, it conjures up images of howling winds, sleet, icy roads, and the flu or a bad head cold. But you might have more reasons for not liking cold ...

Cold agglutinin disease (CAD) is a condition that makes your body’s immune system attack your red blood cells and destroy them. It’s triggered by cold temperatures, and it can cause problems that ...

In a recent case report published in the Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis, researchers presented two cases to highlight the impact of cold agglutinin syndrome (CAS) on clinical presentations in ...

THOUGH the direct agglutination test in brucellosis is usually positive at a titre of 1/80 or over, there is a small proportion of bacteriologically proved cases which fail to show direct ...

EXPERIMENTS to determine whether human complement plays a part in the specific agglutination of human erythrocytes by immune serum revealed an interesting phenomenon. The titration end-point of the ...

H5N1 bird flu has infected growing numbers of people worldwide in recent years, but this week saw something new: the first recorded human case of an H5N5 avian influenza virus. What is this virus and ...