Latex reagent
AssigneeBehringwerke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsWolfgang Kapmeyer, Axel Sieber
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Abstract
What is disclosed is an improved nephelometric method for detecting an antigen or antibody by contact thereof in a liquid medium with particles of a latex reagent comprising latex particles of different sizes loaded with different amounts of a corresponding antibody or antigen and then measuring the light scattered by a latex reagent.
Claims4
In a method for the nephelometric detection and determination of an antigen or antibody by contacting said antigen or antibody in a liquid medium with a latex reagent comprising latex particles loaded with a corresponding antibody or antigen, respectively, and then measuring the light scattering effected by said latex reagent, the improvement wherein said latex reagent comprises latex particles falling within two different size ranges and respectively loaded with different amounts of said corresponding antibody or antigen.
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