To help you recover: 1  Rest if you have severe pain. Otherwise, stay active. 2  Try using a heating pad on a low or medium setting for 15 to 20 minutes every 2 or 3 hours. Try a warm shower in place of one session with the heating pad. 3  Do the exercises that your doctor or physical therapist suggests.
Named after A. von Wassermann. The Wassermann test is based on the ability of blood serum of syphilitic patients to form a complex with the appropriate antigen that absorbs complement (a component of normal serum); erythrocytes of sheepâs blood serve as the antigen, and the antibody is human blood serum.
(3) AMTD-An acronym for A mplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis D irect test. This is a DNA probe test that looks for a particular and unique sequence of nucleic acids within the microbes genome that only occurs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.