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what is it?

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its when you have antibody excess, so then you don't have agglutination.

its significant in the lab, where they do serological testing by looking for agglutination, but youll get a false negitive if you have too many antibodies and not enough antigen

basically you want one antibody to bind to more than one antigen, so that they can be cross linked. but if you have too many antibodies, than each antibody may only be able to bind to one antigen....

i hope that explains it well enough....








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