diphtheria

In 2011, it was 110 years since the first Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded to the E. Bering «for his work on serum therapy, mainly for its use in the treatment of diphtheria, which opened up new directions in medical science and …

Two rapid, phenotypic methods were developed for the detection of diphtheria toxin amongst clinical isolates of corynebacteria, an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and an immunochromatographic strip (ICS) test. Both assays use equine polyclonal antitoxin as …