The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 53, 299-301,
Copyright, 1931, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
THE PRECIPITIN REACTION OF ANTIPNEUMOCOCCUS SERA
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III. THE RATIO OF PRECIPITIN TO PROTECTIVE ANTIBODY IN TYPE II
Harry Sobotka Ph.D.1 and
Mae Friedlander Ph.D.1
1 From the Lucius N. Littauer Pneumonia Research Laboratory, Department of Bacteriology, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York University, New York
The ratio precipitin/protective antibody is given for several fresh antipneumococcus horse sera (Type II).
The application of the precipitin test here dealt with and that of similar ones, based on the conception of a parallelism between precipitin and protective antibody, is limited to unrefined horse sera.
Submitted on November 5, 1930