Evaluation of immunobead test (IBT), tray-agglutination test (TAT), and sperm immobilization test (SIT)

Date
1988
Authors
Pretorius E.
Windt M.L.
Menkveld R.
Kruger T.
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Abstract
The present investigation relates the results obtained by the indirect immunobead test (IBT) to those found during the tray-agglutination test (TAT) and sperm immobilization test (SIT) performed on 16 positive blood sera samples. An IB binding of > 50% can be regarded as significantly positive (p < 0.05), since 77% of the positive IB samples with an IB binding of > 50% also revealed a TAT titer of > 1:8. The IBT is an excellent test for the detection of sperm antibodies during routine screening procedures.
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immunologic agent, clinical article, cytology, diagnosis, human, immunoassay, male, priority journal, sperm, Agglutination Tests, Autoantibodies, Comparative Study, Human, Male, Spermatozoa
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Archives of Andrology
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