Word: antigenically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of California at Los Angeles. Nearly everybody has antibodies against distemper -surprising, because no human being is known to have caught distemper even from the sickest dog. Dr. Adams reasoned that perhaps the virus is close kin to one that causes human disease, contains the same antigen (antibody-stimulating component). He tried a safety-tested distemper vaccine against respiratory infections in a California institution, and it was a flop. But three years later the institution had a measles epidemic. Among inmates who had had distemper vaccination there was only one-third as much measles as among the others...
...Kahn wanted to do better. On Thanksgiving eve of 1921, he recalls, "I walked home at a faster pace than usual. I wanted to tell my wife the exciting news: I had succeeded in bringing about spontaneous precipitation on mixing some strongly positive serums with a specially prepared antigen suspension...