{"id":1466,"date":"2020-10-09T09:27:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2020-10-12T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T16:28:00","slug":"differences-in-performance-characteristics-among-four-high-throughput-assays-for-the-detection-of-antibodies-against-sars-cov-2-using-a-common-set-of-patient-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/09\/differences-in-performance-characteristics-among-four-high-throughput-assays-for-the-detection-of-antibodies-against-sars-cov-2-using-a-common-set-of-patient-samples\/","title":{"rendered":"Differences in Performance Characteristics Among Four High-Throughput Assays for the Detection of Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2 Using a Common Set of Patient Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A study comparing the performance characteristics of four high-throughput assays for SARS-CoV-2 antibody detection indicated that for samples collected from patients 14 or more days after symptom onset, the Roche and Siemens assays had the highest sensitivities (96.6% and 98.3%, respectively) and specificities (100% for both) out of the four tests. The authors note that the sensitivity and specificity of these tests would make them particularly valuable in regions with lower SARS-CoV-2 prevalence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Manthei et al. (Oct 9, 2020). Differences in Performance Characteristics Among Four High-Throughput Assays for the Detection of Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2 Using a Common Set of Patient Samples. American Journal of Clinical Pathology. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ajcp\/aqaa200\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ajcp\/aqaa200<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study comparing the performance characteristics of four high-throughput assays for SARS-CoV-2 antibody detection indicated that for samples collected from patients 14 or more days after symptom onset, the Roche and Siemens assays had the highest sensitivities (96.6% and 98.3%, respectively) and specificities (100% for both) out of the four tests. The authors note that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/09\/differences-in-performance-characteristics-among-four-high-throughput-assays-for-the-detection-of-antibodies-against-sars-cov-2-using-a-common-set-of-patient-samples\/\">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":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","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=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}