Prescott's Microbiology
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Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 36.4, Problem 2RIA
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To determine: The reason for hemagglutination and the way in can be used in clinical laboratory.
Introduction: Hemagglutination is the process of clumping of RBCs. This process is used as a significant diagnostic tool for some typical applications in pathology like blood typing, and quantification of viral dilutions using hemagglutination assay.
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Ch. 36.3 - You have detected aerobic, Gram-positive cocci...Ch. 36.3 - Prob. 2MICh. 36.3 - Prob. 1RIACh. 36.3 - Describe in general how biochemical tests are used...Ch. 36.3 - Prob. 3RIACh. 36.3 - Prob. 4RIACh. 36.3 - Describe a dichotomous key that could be used to...Ch. 36.3 - How can nucleic acidbased detection methods be...Ch. 36.3 - How can a suspect bacterium be fingerprinted?Ch. 36.4 - Prob. 1MI
Ch. 36.4 - Figure 36.10 Agglutination Tests. (a) Tube...Ch. 36.4 - Prob. 3MICh. 36.4 - Prob. 4MICh. 36.4 - Prob. 1RIACh. 36.4 - Prob. 2RIACh. 36.4 - Prob. 3RIACh. 36.4 - Prob. 4RIACh. 36.4 - Prob. 5RIACh. 36.4 - Name two types of immunodiffusion tests and...Ch. 36.4 - Prob. 7RIACh. 36.4 - Prob. 8RIACh. 36.4 - Prob. 9RIACh. 36 - As more ways of identifying the characteristics of...Ch. 36 - Prob. 2CHICh. 36 - ELISA tests usually use a primary and secondary...Ch. 36 - Legionella pneumophila is a bacterium that is...Ch. 36 - Prob. 5CHI
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