Detection of Immune response - 1
•Detection of Infections:
•Umost widely used tests are those that detect antibody response to a specific organism.
•Disease      
•Organism involved       
•Name of Ag     
•Name of Ab
•Diphtheria
•Corynebacterium diphtheriae
•Diphtheria toxin
•specific antitoxin
•Legionella or Legionnaire=s
•Legionella pneumophilia
•polyvalent ag (4 strains)
•anti-Legionella
•Lyme disease
•Borrelia burgdorferi
•borrelia ag
•anti-borrelia
•Gonorrhea
•Neisseria gonorrhoeae
•gonococcal LPS ag
•LPS =
•lipopolysaccharides
•anti-LPS
•Rheumatoid
• fever
•Group A Beta- hemolyticStreptococci
•Streptolysin O ag
•anti-ASO
•DNase (B) isozyme
•anti-DNase (B)