Technical and diagnostic performance of five commercial anti-diphtheria toxoid IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kits

Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2010 Oct;17(10):1612-6. doi: 10.1128/CVI.00077-10. Epub 2010 Aug 25.

Abstract

The technical and diagnostic performances of five commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for the measurement of anti-diphtheria toxoid IgG antibodies were evaluated. There was good agreement between the relative sensitivities of the five assays, but the relative specificity of one of the assays differed from that of the other four assays. Three of the five assays possessed recoveries of the international reference material NIBSC 00/496 within the range of 90% to 110% at antibody levels >0.1 IU/ml. The data suggest that there are manufacture-dependent differences in relative sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy for the determination of anti-diphtheria toxoid IgG antibodies that could result in different diagnostic interpretations.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies, Bacterial / blood*
  • Antitoxins / blood*
  • Bacteriological Techniques / methods*
  • Diphtheria / diagnosis*
  • Diphtheria Toxoid*
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / methods
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin G / blood*
  • Sensitivity and Specificity

Substances

  • Antibodies, Bacterial
  • Antitoxins
  • Diphtheria Toxoid
  • Immunoglobulin G