Assessment of Immune responses/serology

Question 1

study and diagnostic use antigen-antibody interactions in blood serum

Answer 1

immune responses/serology

Question 2

antigen-antibody mixed, insoluble, huge complexes formed

Answer 2

precipitates

Question 3

aka ouchterlony test used to test for fungal antigens

Answer 3

immunodiffusion

Question 4

separates molecule, looks for particular class of antibodies
used for borrelia burgdorferi (lyme disease)

Answer 4

immunoelectorphoresis

Question 5

sensitive and specific, used to ascertain whether pt exposed to particular virus

Answer 5

viral neutralization

Question 6

• clumps red blood cells
• not antibody-antigen reaction
• used for influenza

Answer 6

viral hemagglutination inhibition test

Question 7

detects presence of specific antibodies in serum

Answer 7

complement fixation test

Question 8

dye used, example mycobacterium tuberculosis

Answer 8

fluorescent antibody test

Question 9

enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, enzyme labels antibody for HIV

Answer 9

ELISA’s

Question 10

aka immunoblots

verifies presence of antibodies against HIV

Answer 10

western bloat

aids confirmation test

Question 11

rapid ELISA’s

Answer 11

immunofiltration assays

Question 12

blood typing, pregnancy testing

-for salmonellosis, brucellosis, gonorrhea, rickettsial, mycoplasma, yeast, typhoid fever and meningitis

Answer 12

agglutination