Bordet’s classic paper on the properties of the sera of immunized animals. He showed two different substances (now known as sensitizing antibody and complement) to be involved in the phenomenon of bacteriolysis. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1919. English translation in J. Bordet et al., Studies in immunity, New York, 1909, pp. 8-80.

Bordet’s important work on immune hemolysis turned the attention of many investigators towards the subject. English translation in J. Bordet et al., Studies in immunity, New York, 1909, p. 134.

English translation in T. Bordet et al., Studies in immunity, New York, 1909, p. 186.

The Bordet–Gengou complement-fixation reaction is the basis of many tests for infection, notably the Wassermann test for syphilis, and reactions for gonococcus infection, glanders, hydatid disease. English translation in Bibel, Milestones in immunology (1988), pp. 268-71.

The cocco-bacillus Haemophilus pertussis, commonly regarded as the causal organism of whooping cough, was at first named “Bordet–Gengou bacillus” after its discoverers. It has later renamed Bordetella pertussis.

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