A comparison of three assays for the detection of serum antibody to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was carried out on 47 serum samples obtained sequentially from infants and young children with RSV...
Chronic antigen-antibody complex disease (A-ACD) was induced in mice by daily injections of HSA. The disease was characterized by death, intense glomerular basement membrane deposition of complexes in...
Fucose removal from complex-type oligosaccharide of human IgG1-type antibody results in a great enhancement of antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC). The aim of this study was to clarify the...
When measles antibody levels among pregnant women were measured with measles hemagglutinin inhibition (HI), 31% of subjects had negative HI antibody titers. When the same blood samples were tested wit...
A new IgG antibody avidity test for hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been developed and was validated using sera from 12 renal dialysis patients infected with HCV. In primary HCV infection low avidity anti...