The present invention provides an immunoassay method in which blood can be
measured even without pretreatment by means of a centrifuge etc. In the
present invention, antibodies or antigens in a sample are subjected to
agglutination reaction with insoluble carriers onto which antigens or
antibodies specifically reacting with the antibodies or antigens in the
sample have been immobilized and the resulting agglutination mixture is
determined for the change in its absorbance or in its scattered light by
irradiation with light, wherein said sample is whole blood and the whole
blood is forcibly lyzed.