Örjan Ouchterlony

Örjan Ouchterlony (1914-2004) was a Swedish physician and immunologist who is credited with the creation of the Ouchterlony double immuno diffusion test in the 1940s.[1][2] He was trained at Karolinska Institutet, was a professor of bacteriology at Gothenburg University from 1952 to 1980 and was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1968.[3]

Important works

  1. Ouchterlony Ö (1949), Antigen-antibody reactions in gels and the practical application of this phenomenon in the laboratory diagnosis of diphtheria. Thesis., Solna: Karolinska Institute 
  2. Ouchterlony Ö (1948), "In vitro method for testing the toxin-producing capacity of diphtheria bacteria", Acta path microbiol scand 25: 186–191 
  3. Ouchterlony Ö (1949), "Antigen-antibody reactions in gels", Acta path microbiol scand 26: 507–515 
  4. Ouchterlony Ö (1953), "Antigen-antibody reactions in gels. IV. Types of reactions in coordinated systems of diffusion", Acta path microbiol scand 32: 231–240 

References

  1. ^ "Ouchterlony Test". Enotes.com. http://www.enotes.com/forensic-science/ouchterlony-test. Retrieved April 11, 2010. 
  2. ^ Ouchterlony O (1970), Handbook of Immunodiffusion and Immunoelectrophoresis, Ann Arbor, MI: Ann Arbor-Humphrey Science Publishers, pp. 215 
  3. ^ Holmgren J, Nilsson LA (2007), "Commentary", Acta path microbiol scand 115 (5): 496–498, doi:10.1111/j.1600-0463.2007.apm_738.x