title: The value of amoebic serology in an area of low endemicity.
abstract: One hundred sera from army patients who had had amoebiasis in the past and 113 sera from coloured immigrants attending a venereal diseases clinic were examined by four serological techniques. The indirect haemagglutination and the latex agglutination tests showed almost complete correlation; they are useful epidemiological tools but too sensitive and the antibodies on which they depend are too persistent for clinical use. The indirect fluorescent antibody test is a good clinical screening test, and in an area of low endemicity the gel diffusion precipitin test shows a close correlation with clinical disease.
mesh_terms: D000562:Amebiasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D004748:Entamoeba histolytica / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D012698:Serologic Tests