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ArticleDiagnostic microbiology and infectious disease2021

Comparison of 2 fully automated tests detecting antibodies against nucleocapsid N and spike S1/S2 proteins in COVID-19.

Heini Flinck, Anne Rauhio, Bruno Luukinen, Terho Lehtimäki, Anna-Maija Haapala, Tapio Seiskari, Janne Aittoniemi

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Article in Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Heini FlinckDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland. Electronic address: heini.flinck@fimlab.fi.
Anne RauhioDepartment of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland.
Bruno LuukinenDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland.
Terho LehtimäkiDepartment of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center-Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Anna-Maija HaapalaDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland.
Tapio SeiskariDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland.
Janne AittoniemiDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland.
Fimlab (Finland) · FITampere University · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Automated assays for detecting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) diagnostics have recently come available. We compared the performance of the Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 and LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG tests. The seroconversion panel comprised of 120 samples from 13 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. For the sensitivity and specificity testing, samples from COVID-19 outpatients >15 days after positive nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) result (n = 35) and serum control samples collected before the COVID-19 era (n = 161) were included in the material. Samples for the detection of possible cross-reactions were also tested. Based on our results, the SARS-CoV-2 antibodies can be quite reliably detected 2 weeks after NAAT positivity and 3 weeks after the symptom onset with both tests. However, since some COVID-19 patients were positive only with Elecsys®, the antibodies should be screened against N-antigen (Elecsys®) and reactive samples confirmed with S antigen (LIAISON®), but both results should be reported. In some COVID-19 patients, the serology can remain negative.

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AdultAgedAntibodies, ViralCoronavirus Nucleocapsid ProteinsCOVID-19COVID-19 Nucleic Acid TestingCOVID-19 Serological TestingCross ReactionsFemaleHumansKineticsMaleMiddle AgedPhosphoproteinsSARS-CoV-2Sensitivity and SpecificityAntibodies, ViralCoronavirus Nucleocapsid Proteinsnucleocapsid phosphoprotein, SARS-CoV-2PhosphoproteinsSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2AntibodyCOVID-19ElecsysLIAISONSARS-CoV-2Serology

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PMID32977117
PMCPMC7456296
OpenAlexW3081106672

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