title: Evaluation of immunobead test (IBT), tray-agglutination test (TAT), and sperm immobilization test (SIT).
abstract: The present investigation relates the results obtained by the indirect immunobead test (IBT) to those found during the tray-agglutination test (TAT) and sperm immobilization test (SIT) performed on 16 positive blood sera samples. An IB binding of greater than 50% can be regarded as significantly positive (p less than 0.05), since 77% of the positive IB samples with an IB binding of greater than 50% also revealed a TAT titer of greater than 1:8. The IBT is an excellent test for the detection of sperm antibodies during routine screening procedures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tygerberg Hospital, South Africa.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pretorius
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Windt
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Menkveld
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kruger
mesh_terms: D000372:Agglutination Tests; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies