title: [Indirect hemagglutination test capabilities of personnel from institutes of schistosomiasis control at basic levels in lake areas].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To understand the indirect hemagglutination test capabilities of personnel from the institutes of schistosomiasis control at the basic levels in lake areas.
  
  
  METHODS
  All the contestants were grouped by the operation standard, qualitative judgment, quantitative determination, and geographical location of Hunan and Hubei provinces, and their scores were statistically analyzed by SPSS 16.0 software.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The total scores of the contestants of the two provinces were high and there was no significant difference between them. Among the professional persons, the scores of operation standard and qualitative judgment were significantly higher than those of quantitative determination. There were no significant differences among the scores grouped by the different genders, ages, professional titles and areas (all P > 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The quantitative determination of indirect hemagglutination test of personnel from the institutes of schistosomiasis control at the basic levels is not very good. Therefore, the training of test capacity still should be strengthened.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology, Ministry of Health, WHO Collaborating Center for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis, Shanghai 200025, China.
authors.forename: Zhi-Qiang
authors.initials: ZQ
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Hong-Qing
authors.initials: HQ
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Zi-Ping
authors.initials: ZP
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.forename: Hua-Zhong
authors.initials: HZ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Shi-Zhu
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes; D000328:Adult; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests; D006801:Humans; D060106:Lakes / Q000469:parasitology*; D008297:Male; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000097:blood* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity