Serum vs Seropositivity - What's the difference?
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The clear yellowish fluid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. Also called blood serum.
Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum.
A watery fluid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister.
The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc; whey.
(skincare) An intensive moisturising product to be applied after cleansing but before a general moisturiser.
The quality or state of being seropositive, of having blood serum that tests positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV.
* 1986 , Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Confronting AIDS: Directions for Public Health, Health Care, and Research , National Academy Press, ISBN 978-0-309-03699-3, page 127:
Seropositivity rate, seroprevalence.
As nouns the difference between serum and seropositivity
is that serum is the clear yellowish fluid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. Also called blood serum while seropositivity is the quality or state of being seropositive, of having blood serum that tests positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV.serum
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* antiserum * blood serum * immune serum * serous * serum sickness * truth serumExternal links
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- As discussed above, because of the severe consequences of HIV infection, a few states have required that ARC and even seropositivity be reported.
