| a comparative study of serological techniques for detection of west nile virus antibodies. | this study was conducted to compare different serological techniques namely enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa), hemagglutination inhibition (hi), indirect immunofluorescence (ift) and plaque reduction neutralization (prnt), for detection of west nile virus (wnv) antibodies in sera collected from inhabitants of a flooded village (begiram, minufiya governorate). elisa showed 45% while hi and ift indicated 37.6 and 26.4% positive sera among the tested 178 sera taken from the flooded village, ... | 1996 | 17217008 |