Development of a high-throughput method to evaluate serum bactericidal activity using bacterial ATP measurement as survival readout.

Serum Bactericidal Activity (SBA) assay is the method of choice to evaluate the complement-mediated functional activity of both infection- and vaccine-induced antibodies. To perform a typical SBA assay, serial dilutions of sera are incubated with target bacterial strains and complement. The conventi...

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Main Authors: Francesca Necchi, Allan Saul, Simona Rondini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5305226?pdf=render