[Identification of bacterial antigens in patients pretreated with antibiotics using counter-current immunoelectrophoresis (author's transl)]

The article describes the method of counter-current immunoelectrophoresis as a rapid and safe technique for the identification of bacterial antigens in body fluids. This technique has proved very useful especially in patients who had been pretreated with antibiotics, since the culture yields are usually negative in such patients, as experience has shown.