Title
The nature of the hemagglutinating agent noted in the blood serum of patients with viral hepatitis
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-1961
Publication Title
The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine
ISSN
00222143
Abstract
Animals were immunized against rhesus erythrocytes agglutinated with serum of patients with infectious hepatitis, and against sheep erythrocytes agglutinated by infectious mononucleosis sera. The resulting antisera were found to contain antiglobulin antibodies as shown by their ability to agglutinate human group O Rh-positive red cells sensitized by anti-Rh incomplete antibody. The presence of antiglobulin antibody in the immune rabbit sera indicates that the agglutinating agents in infectious hepatitis and infectious mononucleosis are globulin in nature, and the agglutination is considered to be due to antibody action rather than to the presence of a hemagglutinating virus. © 1961.
Volume
58
Issue
1
First Page
104
Last Page
106
PubMed ID
13716303
Recommended Citation
Hoyt, Robert E.; Morrison, Lester M.; and Levine, Milton G., "The nature of the hemagglutinating agent noted in the blood serum of patients with viral hepatitis" (1961). LLU Faculty Publications. 43.
https://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/fac_pubs/43