monoclonal antibodies - developed in lab due to their specificity and ease of large quantity production, immunoelectrophoresis - electric through chemicals, Western Blot used for HIV/AIDS testing, agglutination reaction - clumping of cells, very sensitive and easy to read, direct agglutination test - titers, test immunity in blood, indirect agglutination test - faster, used for strep throat tests, hemagglutination - clumping of RBCs for blood typing and allergies, neutralization reaction - antitoxin production and study, complement fixation reaction - complement binding to antibody-antigen complex, fluorescent antibody techniques - testing for certain microorganisms, fast, sensitive, specific, indirect or direct, diagnose diseases, Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay - ELISA, most common antibody test today, many are specific and very easy, direct and indirect, narrow spectrum - only kills a certain genus or class, broad spectrum - kills many gram positive or gram negative, bactericidal - kills the microbes, bacteriostatic - prevents growth,

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