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ArticleClinical and vaccine immunology : CVI2015

Evaluation of a multiplex bead immunoassay for determination of immune status to varicella-zoster virus in medical center students and employees.

Michael J Loeffelholz, Harry E Prince

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Article in Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael J LoeffelholzDepartment of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA mjloeffe@utmb.edu.
Harry E PrinceFocus Diagnostics, San Juan Capistrano, California, USA.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study evaluated an enzyme immunoassay, a multiplex bead immunoassay (MBIA), and the anticomplement immunofluorescence (ACIF) test for detecting varicella-zoster virus IgG antibodies in sera from medical center students and employees. The agreement between methods was ≥95%. The MBIA was less sensitive than was the ACIF test, with a negative predictive value of 66.7%.

Indexed as

Immunoenzyme TechniquesAntibodies, ViralFemaleFluorescent Antibody TechniqueHealth PersonnelHerpesvirus 3, HumanHumansImmunoassayImmunoglobulin GMalePredictive Value of TestsSensitivity and SpecificityStudents, Health OccupationsStudents, MedicalAntibodies, ViralImmunoglobulin G

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PMID25589555
PMCPMC4340899
OpenAlexW2107213343

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