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Comparison of immunodiffusion techniques with standard complement fixation assay for quantitation of coccidioidal antibodies. This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.Abstract Quantitative immunodiffusion (QID) and complement fixation (CF) methods were compared for their agreement in detecting coccidioidal antibodies. For these studies, we assayed 719 sera from 181 patients with coccidioidomycosis. Over 60% of the specimens had CF results of 1:2 to 1:256. A total of 43 patients had five or more specimens obtained over periods of between 1 and 8 years. The QID method, as originally performed, agreed within a twofold dilution of the CF titer in 191 of 267 sera (71.5%). Modification of QID by repeated filling of the antigen and serum wells improved agreement to 84.7% (383 of 452 sera). The degree of CF titer change in patients over time periods was more closely matched by the modified than by the original QID method. Discrepancies between the CF and QID methods appeared not to be due to a subpopulation of patients. QID measurement of coccidioidal antibodies may be a useful substitute for the CF assay in certain clinical laboratories. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (915K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References. Images in this article Click on the image to see a larger version. Selected References These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.
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