Antibody tests for COVID-19: drawing attention to the importance of analytical specificity

Clin Chem Lab Med. 2020 Jun 25;58(7):1144-1145. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2020-0554.

Authors

Phedias Diamandis¹, Ioannis Prassas², Eleftherios P Diamandis^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
² Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
³ Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
⁴ Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, 60 Murray St [Box 32], Flr 6 - Rm L6-201-1, Toronto, ON, M5T 3L9, Canada.

PMID: 32386187
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2020-0554

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; antibody; serological Ab tests; widespread testing.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adaptive Immunity / immunology*
Antibody Specificity / immunology
Betacoronavirus / immunology
Betacoronavirus / pathogenicity
COVID-19
Clinical Laboratory Techniques / standards
Clinical Laboratory Techniques / trends
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Coronavirus Infections / immunology*
Data Science / methods
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Viral / immunology*
SARS-CoV-2
Sensitivity and Specificity