ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Bioanalytical Performance of a New Particle-Enhanced Method for Measuring Procalcitonin.
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- Comment to: Extensive analytical evaluation of the performances of the new DiaSys PCT assay and comparison with Elecsys B·R·A·H·M·S PCT test on Roche Cobas and B·R·A·H·M·S PCT-sensitive Kryptor.Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine · 2024Article
- Patient Stratification for Antibiotic Prescriptions Based on the Bound-Free Phase Detection Immunoassay of C-Reactive Protein in Serum Samples.Biosensors · 2023Article
- Comparison of a novel automated DiaSys procalcitonin immunoassay with four different BRAHMS-partnered immunoassays.Practical laboratory medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
We report the analytical performances of two particle-enhanced (PETIA) methods for measuring procalcitonin (PCT), the Diazyme PCT and the new DiaSys PCT assay, and their concordance of values with BRAHMS PCT Kryptor©. The total imprecisions onto two control levels and one serum pool were for DiaSys 5.42%, 3.3% and 7.53% and for Diazyme 10.7%, 2.9% and 13.23%, respectively. The limit of blank, limit of detection and limit of quantification were under the 0.25 cut-off for the two methods. The linearity in the lower range was acceptable for both methods. No significant effect on PCT determination was observed for DiaSys' assay upon addition of interfering substances. With the Diazyme assay, significant effects were seen with rheumatoid factor (RF), lipid and hemoglobin. Correlation studies on 136 sera showed a good correlation between PCT measurements using DiaSys assay against the Kryptor system, while only a poor correlation was observed between the Diazyme assay, especially for low values. The novel PETIA PCT assay from DiaSys shows analytical performances acceptable for clinical use and the concordance with Kryptor method was fine at all clinical cut-offs. In contrast, despite comparable analytical performances, the Diazyme PETIA method exhibited a poor concordance with the Kryptor method.
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