Ninety-seven samples of human sera with various amounts of smallpox antibody were simultaneously compared in ELISA and HI test, and 26 of them were also studied in NT. Alongside with HI and NT, ELISA was shown to be highly sensitive and reproducible, and useful for simultaneous examination of a large number of sera.

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