Diagnostic reagent for swine trichinosis

摘要

A hybrid cell formed by the fusion of a mouse spleen cell with a mouse myeloma cell secretes an IgM class antibody. The antibody is useful as a preparative reagent in the isolation of three proteins, molecular weights 45,000, 49,000 and 53,000, from the parasite Trichinella spiralis and is also useful as a direct diagnostic reagent is a competitive serodiagnostic test.