{"id":2328,"date":"2020-11-23T12:19:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2020-11-24T15:06:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:06:25","slug":"a-serological-assay-to-detect-sars-cov-2-antibodies-in-at-home-collected-finger-prick-dried-blood-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/23\/a-serological-assay-to-detect-sars-cov-2-antibodies-in-at-home-collected-finger-prick-dried-blood-spots\/","title":{"rendered":"A Serological Assay to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in at-Home Collected Finger-Prick Dried Blood Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A home-based finger\u2010prick dried blood spot collection kit demonstrated 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity in detecting SARS-CoV-2 antibodies against S1 protein in 111 specimens collected at home from 31 patients with COVID-19 and 80 healthy participants. The authors conclude such methods may facilitate the test within hard-to reach-populations and help reduce the sample collection burden of serological testing on both health care systems and individuals.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Karp et al. (Nov 19, 2020). A Serological Assay to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in at-Home Collected Finger-Prick Dried Blood Spots. Scientific Reports<\/i>. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-020-76913-6\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-020-76913-6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A home-based finger\u2010prick dried blood spot collection kit demonstrated 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity in detecting SARS-CoV-2 antibodies against S1 protein in 111 specimens collected at home from 31 patients with COVID-19 and 80 healthy participants. The authors conclude such methods may facilitate the test within hard-to reach-populations and help reduce the sample collection burden&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/23\/a-serological-assay-to-detect-sars-cov-2-antibodies-in-at-home-collected-finger-prick-dried-blood-spots\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-2328","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\/2328","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}