sero-comb. form

1910 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 12 Feb. 573/2 (heading) Seroagglutination of Sporothrix schenkii.

1975 Jrnl. Clin. Microbiol. 2 268 (heading) Seroagglutination test for identification of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.

1890 K. Mitsukuri in Anatomischer Anzeiger V. 512 A connection—quite elongated and definite in later stages—between the amnion and the serous envelope separates them [sc. the extra-embryonic coelomic cavities of the two moieties of the amnion] to the very end of the development... The connection I propose to call the sero~amniotic connection.

1958 B. M. Patten Found. Embryol. xi. 183 The cavity between serosa and amnion (sero-amniotic cavity) is part of the extra-embryonic coelom.

1966 C. A. Hoare in Ergebnisse der Mikrobiol. u. Immunitätsforsch. XXXIX. 55 A more suitable term [than ‘type’] is ‘deme’.., which denotes a population..within a specified taxon.., and may be combined with an appropriate prefix... T. evansi..contains immunologically distinct strains, which..represent serodemes.

1978 Nature 25 May 300/2 We have transmitted through Glossina morsitans morsitans trypanosomes of the AnTat serodeme.

1960 Virology 10 376 (heading) A simple test for serodifferentiation of poliovirus strains within the same type.

1974 Bull. World Health Organization 50 479 This heterogeneous immune response permits the preparation of specific antisera for intratypic serodifferentiation.

1958 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 31 May 541/1 This paper will report seroepidemiologic results associating the increase in influenza-pneumonia mortality..with the influenza virus.

1978 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 16 Jan. 210/1 To define the epidemiologic features of occupationally acquired hepatitis B infection among physicians, we conducted a sero~epidemiologic survey of physicians attending three American Medical Association conventions.

1959 Amer. Jrnl. Public Health 49 847 (heading) A laboratory analysis of the 1957–1958 influenza outbreak in New York City. II. A seroepidemiological study.

1975 Nature 1 May 12/2 Limited seroepidemiological studies have shown that most individuals of a low socio-economic level had hepatitis antibodies.

1967 Bull. World Health Organization 37 79 (heading) WHO collaborative study on the sero-epidemiology of Rubella.

1977 Lancet 12 Nov. 1038/2 The seroepidemiology of herpes simplex virus (H.S.V.) type 2 infection in man has been hampered by difficulties in demonstrating antibodies specific for H.S.V. type 2 in sera with cross-reacting H.S.V. type 1 antibodies.

1954 Wolff & Broom in Documenta Med. Geogr. & Tropica VI. 92 When two or more serotypes show marked similarities in their serological reactions..it is convenient to assemble them into groups, which we suggest should be known as ‘serogroups’ (serological groups).

1962 Austral. Jrnl. Exper. Biol. 40 84 We..propose that strain ‘Robinson’ be recognized as a new serotype in the pyrogenes serogroup with the designation Leptospira robinsoni.

1977 Lancet 29 Jan. 257/1 None of the other serogroups of streptococci (A, C, D, G and F) produce any pigment.

1977 Jrnl. Clinical Path. 30 836 The meningococcal strains were serogrouped by slide-agglutination.

1963 Jrnl. Clin. Investig. 42 989/2 Serogrouping of E. coli permitted the recognition of 25 instances of recurrent infection with a different serogroup..and 24 instances of recurrence with the same serogroup.

1977 Jrnl. Clinical Path. 30 834 (heading) Use of antiserum agar plates for serogrouping of meningococci.

1907 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 6 Apr. 1219/1 Sero-immunity to bile salts.

1975 Amer. Jrnl. Epidemiol. 101 333/1 Most reports on sero~immunity have dealt with small children, following vaccine programs with very little information on maintenance of artificially induced antibody.

1931 Biochem. Jrnl. 25 1064 It is considered unlikely that the carbohydrate isolated from serum-albumin and globulin preparations was in reality derived from admixed seromucoid.

1955 Methods Biochem. Anal. II. 281 It is appropriate to replace the term plasma mucoprotein with the established term seromucoid.

1932 J. F. Schamberg & C. S. Wright Treatm. Syphilis xxv. 404 (table) Two to 3 courses of combined therapy usually suffice for seronegative primary syphilis.

1977 Lancet 9 Apr. 811/2 A seronegative donor showed no response at any concentration of antigen.

1932 J. F. Schamberg & C. S. Wright Treatm. Syphilis xxv. 417 The treatment of seronegative primary syphilis should continue for two years and for seropositive primary syphilis..for from two to three years.

1975 Nature 12 June 546/1 Seronegative and seropositive squirrels were housed in an isolated room in different cages, usually in groups of six.

1969 Acta Path. & Microbiol. Scandinavica LXXVII. 278 The numbers of sero-positive experimental mice are expressed as ratios of the numbers surviving because this gives a more accurate impression of the sero-positivity of each group.

1873 C. H. Ralfe Outl. Physiol. Chem. 168 In ichorous, muco-, or sero-pus.

1894 Foster's Med. Dict. Sero-serous, pertaining to two or more serous membranes jointly.

1968 J. G. Hawkes & Tucker in Chemotaxonomy & Serotaxonomy viii. 77 The first stage of a serotaxonomic revision of the family Solanaceae is described in which seeds have been used as the source of saline soluble protein.

1967 Nature 9 Sept. 1213/1 Systematics Association... Symposium on ‘Chemotaxonomy and Serotaxonomy’.

1968 P. G. H. Gell in J. G. Hawkes Chemotaxonomy & Serotaxonomy vii. 74 The evidence that the heavy chains of other immunoglobulins were involved in the same evolutionary process comes from work on the allotypes. Here we return to studies rather closer to serotaxonomy.

1971 Nature 9 Apr. 412/2 He is rather cautiously optimistic about the future possibilities of protein and DNA studies and of serotaxonomy.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 486 Experiments in immunizing by sero-therapeutic methods have not as yet met with success.

1901 Daily Chron. 31 Aug. 5/6 The medical puffery of the serotherapists.

1894 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Nov. 1008 The series of discoveries which finally led to that of the serotherapy.