Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32532141›Full record

ArticleVaccines2020

A Simple and High-Throughput ELISA-Based Neutralization Assay for the Determination of Anti-Flavivirus Neutralizing Antibodies.

Jean Claude Balingit, Minh Huong Phu Ly, Mami Matsuda, Ryosuke Suzuki, Futoshi Hasebe, Kouichi Morita, Meng Ling Moi

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Vaccines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Application of Orthoflavivirus Pseudovirus Technology in Antiviral Research.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
    Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Trends in ELISA-Based Flavivirus IgG Serosurveys: A Systematic Review.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023
    Review
  6. Review
  7. Novel Antiviral Efficacy ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jean Claude BalingitGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto 1-12-4, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2165-907X
Minh Huong Phu LyGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto 1-12-4, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
Mami MatsudaDepartment of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-7-1 Gakuen, Musashi-murayama-shi, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan.
Ryosuke SuzukiDepartment of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-7-1 Gakuen, Musashi-murayama-shi, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan.
Futoshi HasebeGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto 1-12-4, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
Kouichi MoritaGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto 1-12-4, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
Meng Ling MoiGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto 1-12-4, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8103-6659
Nagasaki University · JPNational Institute of Infectious Diseases · JP

Funding

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development JP20wm0125006;19fk0108109h0001, 20fk0108109h0001, 20fk0108123h1101
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mosquito-borne flavivirus infections, including dengue virus and Zika virus, are major public health threats globally. While the plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT) is considered the gold standard for determining neutralizing antibody levels to flaviviruses, the assay is time-consuming and laborious. This study, therefore, aimed to develop an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-based microneutralization test (EMNT) for the detection of neutralizing antibodies to mosquito-borne flaviviruses. The inhibition of viral growth due to neutralizing antibodies was determined colorimetrically by using EMNT. Given the significance of Fcγ-receptors (FcγR) in antibody-mediated neutralization and antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of flavivirus infection, non-FcγR and FcγR-expressing cell lines were used in the EMNT to allow the detection of the sum of neutralizing and immune-enhancing antibody activity as the neutralizing titer. Using anti-flavivirus monoclonal antibodies and clinical samples, the utility of EMNT was evaluated by comparing the end-point titers of the EMNT and the PRNT. The correlation between EMNT and PRNT titers was strong, indicating that EMNT was robust and reproducible. The new EMNT assay combines the biological functional assessment of virus neutralization activity and the technical advantages of ELISA and, is simple, reliable, practical, and could be automated for high-throughput implementation in flavivirus surveillance studies and vaccine trials.

Indexed as

dengueELISAflavivirusmicroneutralization testneutralizing antibodiesZika

Identifiers

PMID32532141
PMCPMC7350015
OpenAlexW3034590614

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.