Definitions for "Cross-reactivity"
A phenomenon seen in testing for specific blood antibodies against such organisms as HSV-1 and HSV-2. The separate viruses have stimulated production of common or similar antibodies which cannot be distinguished from each other by reaction against the individual virus types.
a process by which an antibody responds to an antigen other than that which originally stimulated its production.
The ability of an antibody, specific for one antigen, to react with a second antigen; a measure of relatedness between two different antigenic substances.