{"id":6892,"date":"2021-03-17T12:19:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:20:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:20:58","slug":"real-world-experience-of-sars-cov-2-antibody-assays-in-uk-healthcare-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/17\/real-world-experience-of-sars-cov-2-antibody-assays-in-uk-healthcare-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-World Experience of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Assays in UK Healthcare Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among health care workers in the UK, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abbott and Roche antibody assays showed low sensitivity for detecting individuals with previous PCR-confirmed infection. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a cohort study conducted at 2 medical centers in the UK, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Abbott antibody assay had a sensitivity (proportion with a positive antibody test result in those with previous PCR-confirmed infection) of 40% and the Roche assay had a sensitivity of 81%.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antibody seroprevalence was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">8% in the cohort tested with the Abbott assay and 13% for the cohort tested with the Roche assay. Testing was conducted ~60-90 days after infection.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robinson et al.\u00a0(Mar 16, 2021). Real-World Experience of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Assays in UK Healthcare Workers. Clinical Medicine. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7861\/clinmed.2020.1007\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7861\/clinmed.2020.1007<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among health care workers in the UK, Abbott and Roche antibody assays showed low sensitivity for detecting individuals with previous PCR-confirmed infection. In a cohort study conducted at 2 medical centers in the UK, the Abbott antibody assay had a sensitivity (proportion with a positive antibody test result in those with previous PCR-confirmed infection) of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/17\/real-world-experience-of-sars-cov-2-antibody-assays-in-uk-healthcare-workers\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-6892","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\/6892","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6893,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions\/6893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}