An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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HIRST, George Keble

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The agglutination of red cells by allantoic fluid of chick embryos infected with influenza virus.

Science, 94, 22-23, 1941.

Discovery of virus hemagglutination. Between 1941 and 1942 Hirst developed the hemagglutination assay for quantifying the relative concentration of viruses, bacteria or antibodies.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › Bacteriology, Laboratory techniques in, HEMATOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › GENERAL PRINCIPLES of Infection by Microorganisms, Laboratory Medicine › Blood Tests, VIROLOGY