title: Diagnosis of human and animal brucellosis by the indirect haemagglutination test.
abstract: This paper describes the results of many years' study of the indirect haemagglutination (IHA) test for brucellosis. It is shown that the use of sheep erythrocytes sensitized with a specific lipopolysaccharide antigen in the IHA test provides a specific method, which is more sensitive than the agglutination test, for the diagnosis of brucellosis in man and farm animals.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D002002:Brucella / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000276:immunology*; D002007:Brucellosis, Bovine / Q000276:immunology*; D002417:Cattle; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000276:immunology; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests; D006801:Humans; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D011817:Rabbits
chemical_list: D008070:Lipopolysaccharides