serosurveillance

English

Etymology

sero- +‎ surveillance

Noun

serosurveillance (countable and uncountable, plural serosurveillances)

  1. The monitoring of the presence or absence of specific substances in the blood serum of a population.
    • 2016 January 26, “Prevalence of Neutralizing Antibodies to Japanese Encephalitis Virus among High-Risk Age Groups in South Korea, 2010”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:
      In the future, serosurveillance should be conducted periodically using more representative samples to better understand the population-level immunity to JE in South Korea.
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