Typing of Haemophilus influenzae by coagglutination and conventional slide agglutination.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology
R G ShivelyL M de la Maza

Abstract

Coagglutination was compared with conventional slide agglutination for the typing of 297 clinical isolates of Haemophilus sp. A 100% correlation was found with the H. influenzae type b isolates. Coagglutination showed no false-positive reactions with the nontypable strains of H. influenzae and H. parainfluenzae isolates; however, conventional slide agglutination exhibited many false-positive and non-interpretable reactions.

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