{"id":1247,"date":"2020-09-30T10:09:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:11:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T17:11:06","slug":"reliability-of-serological-tests-for-covid-19-comparison-of-three-immunochromatography-test-kits-for-sars-cov-2-antibodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/30\/reliability-of-serological-tests-for-covid-19-comparison-of-three-immunochromatography-test-kits-for-sars-cov-2-antibodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliability of Serological Tests for COVID-19: Comparison of Three Immunochromatography Test Kits for SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Three commercially available serological test kits using immunochromatography (Hangzhou AllTest, SD BIOSENSOR, and Vazyme) were evaluated using identical sample sets consisting of 99 serum samples from SARS-CoV-2 positive patients and 100 serum samples from healthy volunteers in 2017. All test kits achieved &gt;97% specificity for IgM and IgG and &gt;97% sensitivity to IgG at 13 days after symptom onset. Sensitivity to IgM after 4 days varied, with both Hangzhou and Vazyme unable to achieve values &gt;33.3%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fujigaki et al. (Sept 29, 2020). Reliability of Serological Tests for COVID-19: Comparison of Three Immunochromatography Test Kits for SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies. Heliyon. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.heliyon.2020.e04929\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.heliyon.2020.e04929<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three commercially available serological test kits using immunochromatography (Hangzhou AllTest, SD BIOSENSOR, and Vazyme) were evaluated using identical sample sets consisting of 99 serum samples from SARS-CoV-2 positive patients and 100 serum samples from healthy volunteers in 2017. All test kits achieved &gt;97% specificity for IgM and IgG and &gt;97% sensitivity to IgG at 13&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/30\/reliability-of-serological-tests-for-covid-19-comparison-of-three-immunochromatography-test-kits-for-sars-cov-2-antibodies\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,75,76,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-candidate","tag-report","tag-summarize","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}