Serological techniques.

Abstract

It is rather curious that, although ser for a multitude of constituents in and haematological laboratories, the ter has come to imply almost exclusively the ( of serum for antibodies, and, in part bodies related to microbial diseases serological techniques tend to be regarde as the prerogative of microbiologists. When one considers for how long a extent in biochemical laboratories the of tests for other blood constituent developed, it is a little difficult to unc delay in automating routine tests for Although they may be imperfectly c substances, their physiochemical rea been studied for many years, and rout. well established. It can hardly be that for antibody tests has not been enoul automation an economical propositior at Figure 1 reveals that the number of se for syphilis antibodies each year in pi laboratories alone throughout England has almost doubled over a period of 10 rapidly approaching half a million. To 1