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. 1978 Feb;80(1):1–11. doi: 10.1017/s0022172400053341

Single radial haemolysis: a survey of antibody titres in the highland region of Scotland to recent strains of influenza A.

A W Joss, J K McPherson, H Williams
PMCID: PMC2129987  PMID: 621377

Abstract

The single radial haemolysis test is conveniently practical and economical and promises to have wide applicability in the study of influenza antibodies in human populations. It can also be adapted for preliminary examination of new virus isolates during epidemics. Using this test a rather higher proportion of the population in the Highland Region of Scotland were found to possess antibody to a recent epidemic strain of influenza (A/Scotland/74) than was the case in the south of England. Antibody was detected and apparently evenly spread throughout all but the most remote island communities. Some evidence of the spread of the subsequent variant, A/Victoria/75, was obtained. Most of the school children in our study had high antibody titres to recent strains but the proportion with high antibody titres to these strains declined speedily from the age of 17 years onwards.

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