ArticleJournal of infection and public health
Dried blood spots: An evaluation of utility in the field.
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- Vaccine Response Assessment in Children Using Dried Blood Spots: The DRIVE Study.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2026Observational
- Agreement Between Self-Reported COVID-19 and Dried Blood Spot Serology: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- An Expert Consensus Statement on Biomarkers of Aging for Use in Intervention Studies.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025Article
- Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Response Between Paired Fingerprick (HemaPENAntibodies (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Influence of Hematocrit and Storage Temperature on the Stability of Dried Blood Samples in Serological Analyses of Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Comparison of Overall Sensitivity and Specificity across Different Newborn Screening Algorithms for Congenital Cytomegalovirus.International journal of neonatal screening · 2023Article
- Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Globotriaosylsphingosine and Its Analogues in Dried Blood Spots.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Using Dried Blood Spots for a Sero-Surveillance Study of Maternally Derived Antibody against Group B Streptococcus.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Effect of the Hematocrit and Storage Temperature of Dried Blood Samples in the Serological Study of Mumps, Measles and Rubella.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Current and future applications of biomarkers in samples collected through minimally invasive methods for cancer medicine and population-based research.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2022Review
- Immune surveillance for six vaccinable pathogens using paired plasma and dried blood spots in HIV infected and uninfected children in Kinshasa.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Correlation of dried blood spots and plasma for quantification of Immunoglobulin (IgG) against Receptor binding domain and full length spike protein of SARS-CoV-2.Journal of virological methods · 2022Article
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- COVID-19 Vaccine Response in People with Multiple Sclerosis.Annals of neurology · 2022Article
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- Dried blood spots for the identification of bio-accumulating organic compounds: current challenges and future perspectives.Current opinion in environmental science & health · 2020Article
- A pilot study for exploring blood spot anti-mullerian hormone for population-based adolescent reproductive health research.Frontiers in women's health · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundUse of dried blood spots (DBS) offers advantages over serum samples in studies conducted in resource-poor settings. The aim of this study was to compare the number of adequate spots collected across different demographic groups.
methodsFive DBS were collected from 3316 individuals aged 0-49 years in Tianjin, China for a measles antibody study; DBS were rated "adequate" or "inadequate." Linear regression, with the number of adequate DBS on a card as the outcome variable, was used to test for predictors of DBS adequacy.
resultsThere were 0 adequate DBS for 23% of participants and 5 adequate DBS for 24%. Mean number of adequate DBS was 1.68 in infants (<12 months), 2.57 (1-9 years), 3.49 (10-29 years), 3.08 (30-49 years). The number of adequate DBS increased over the study; the mean number of adequate DBS for the five years 2011-2015 were 1.21, 2.52, 3.40, 2.22, and 3.62, respectively. DBS quality was not related to measles IgG antibodies.
conclusionsDBS are an alternative for adults and children but pose challenges in infants, and improve with experience. In a resource-limited environment or in a scenario where more invasive techniques like venipuncture may be less accepted by the study population, DBS can be the preferred technique to efficiently obtain serum specimens for analyte testing.
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