The indirect haemagglutination test for malaria and its application to epidemiological surveillance.
Recent studies with the indirect haemagglutination test for malaria are reviewed. Aspects of methodology, reproducibility, specificity, and sensitivity are discussed. A procedure is presented for application in the field, which indicates some progress towards developing a simple field method for the epidemiological surveillance of malaria.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000349:Africa; D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000032:analysis; D002648:Child; D004912:Erythrocytes; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D005612:Freeze Drying; D000882:Haplorhini; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D008297:Male; D010961:Plasmodium / Q000276:immunology; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012698:Serologic Tests; D012756:Sheep; D013532:Suriname; D014944:World Health Organization
D000906:Antibodies