[Indirect hemagglutination test capabilities of personnel from institutes of schistosomiasis control at basic levels in lake areas].

Zhongguo Xue Xi Chong Bing Fang Zhi Za Zhi

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.

Published: December 2012

AI Article Synopsis

  • The study aimed to evaluate the skills of personnel in using the indirect hemagglutination test for schistosomiasis control in Hunan and Hubei provinces.
  • Results showed that while overall scores were high across both provinces, there was a notable deficiency in quantitative determination skills compared to operational standards and qualitative judgments.
  • The findings suggest that further training is needed to enhance the quantitative testing abilities of these personnel, as there were no significant differences based on demographics like gender or age.

Article 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.

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