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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 1978
Filed:
Jan. 16, 1976
Richard T Price, Verona, NJ (US);
Rita C Prodell, West Orange, NJ (US);
Akzona Incorporated, Asheville, NC (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are a reagent and test slide used for serological detection of gonorrheal antibodies in human blood serum or synovial fluid. The reagent comprises latex particles having absorbed on their surfaces an inert protein, such as bovine serum albumin and a heat labile antigen derived from Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria exhibiting T.sub.1 colonial morphology. The reagent may be employed by several forms, for example, as a liquid suspension of the latex particles, or in the form of a dried deposit of the latex particles. Regardless of the form employed, the reagent is particularly useful as a routine screening test in hospitals and prenatal clinics to detect gonococcal infection in women and also in cases of complicated gonorrhea, e.g., gonorrheal arthritis where infection is not conveniently detectable by present means. The test slide may have dried thereon an absorbing antigen for heterophile antibodies. If desired, diagnosis made by the test of the invention can be subsequently confirmed by conventional more expensive and time consuming means, if this is thought to be desirable.