Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

March 27, 2020

Serological diagnostic kit of SARS-C 1 oV-2 antibodies using CHO2 expressed full-length SARS-CoV-2 S1 proteins.

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  • The authors report on the development and validation of a SARS-CoV-2 serology ELISA kit for detection of total anti-virus antibody in suspected cases and potentially using this as an at-home testing kit.  
  • Sensitivity and specificity of the ELISA kit were both 97.5%, and the kit was used to successfully identify antibodies in a patient who had tested negative twice using the nucleic acid test.

Zhao et al. (Mar 27, 2020). Serological diagnostic kit of SARS-C 1 oV-2 antibodies using CHO2 expressed full-length SARS-CoV-2 S1 proteins. Pre-print downloaded Mar 27 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.26.20042184