Laboratory Diagnosis of Brucellosis Using the Slide and Standard Tube Agglutination Methods

Laboratory Diagnosis of Brucellosis Using the Slide and Standard Tube Agglutination Methods

Yahya Faydi, Suleiman Al-Khalil

Medical Laboratory Sciences Department, An-Najah National University-Nablus; This paper was presented at the 30 scientific week held in Damascus, Syria, November 1990.

Received : 00-00-0000 , Accepted : 00-00-0000

Language: English

Abstract

Both the rapid slide and standard tube agglutination methods were used for the diagnosis of 112 blood specimens for Brucellosis. We found that 56% of the patients have a titer <> 1:80. We found that the rapid slide agglutination method correlates well with the tube agglutination method.

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