serosurveillance

English

Etymology

From 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^[1], →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.