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Serological epidemiology and the function of serum banks

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Techniques and principles which are used in serological epidemiologic investigations are described, and it has been pointed out that the World Health Organization has recently established “Serum Reference Banks” to expand the potentialities in this field.

Serologic and hematologic surveys of diverse populations living in different environments have been studied recently and have yielded information regarding the fields of the epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious diseases, anthropology, and genetics.

Examples of the application of serologic epidemiology to surveys of populations in several parts of the world are given.

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  1. Reference Serum Bank of the World Health Organization and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School ofMedicine, New Haven, Conn.

    John R. Paul M. D. (Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology, Yale University, Director, Regional W.H.O. Serum Bank)

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Dedicated to the Honor of the 60th birthday of ProfessorSven Gard.

The work of this Serum Bank has been supported jointly by grants from the World Health Organization and by several grants from U.S. Federal agencies and private Foundations.

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Paul, J.R. Serological epidemiology and the function of serum banks. Archiv f Virusforschung 17, 465–471 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01241202

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