The basic steps of a complement fixation test are as follows:

Alternate diagnosis can be made by complement fixation tests.

Ante mortum diagnosis may be made with the use of dermal sensitivity testing or complement fixation tests.

Rather than using live animals as test subjects, Canada used serological tests such as complement fixation tests to detect trypanosomes, and have been very successful.

These tests include ELISAs and complement fixation tests.

Bacterial culture, immunofluorescent antibody testing (IFAT), complement fixation test and haemagglutination can all be used to confirm the diagnosis.

The complement fixation test is an immunological medical test that can be used to detect the presence of either specific antibody or specific antigen in a patient's serum.

In its toxic phase, the disease was easily confused with typhus, so Fairley developed a complement fixation test for the disease along the lines of the Wassermann test.

He developed a complement fixation test for the diagnosis of syphilis in 1906, just one year after the causative organism had been identified; this allowed for early detection of the disease (despite its nonspecific symptoms), and thus prevention of transmission.

Immunological examinations, such as indirect immunofluorescence, ELISA, Immunoblotting (Western blot), and Complement fixation test are methods of identifying different kinds of parasites by detecting the presence of their antigens on or within the parasite itself.