[Effectiveness of erythrocytic diagnostic reagents in indicating Shigellae]

The possibility of the preparation of dysentery antibody diagnostic reagents on the basis of adsorbed sera is shown. Such diagnostic reagents permit to determine 200000-600000 microbial bodies or 0.0008-0.0016 microgram of the antigen per ml. The use of antigenic erythrocytic diagnostic reagents for the indication of shigellae is expedient in the second variant of the passive hemagglutination inhibition test in the following modification: immune sera should be diluted not 2-fold, but only 1.5-fold; the material to be tested for the presence of shigellae should be added to these dilutions in a double volume.