{"id":8180,"date":"2021-03-31T09:44:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8180"},"modified":"2021-04-01T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:45:26","slug":"a-haemagglutination-test-for-rapid-detection-of-antibodies-to-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/31\/a-haemagglutination-test-for-rapid-detection-of-antibodies-to-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Haemagglutination Test for Rapid Detection of Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A study of red cell agglutination tests (haemagglutination tests, or HAT) demonstrated the ability to detect antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain with a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 99% in blood samples taken from individuals with a PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection \u226528 days prior. The authors note that the HAT test for antibody detection confers several benefits that may make it suitable for a point-of-care test in low-resource settings, including its low cost, no need for specialized equipment, short development time, and the ability to read by eye.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Townsend et al. (Dec 29, 2021). A Haemagglutination Test for Rapid Detection of Antibodies to <\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SARS-CoV-2. Nature Communications. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-021-22045-y\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-021-22045-y<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of red cell agglutination tests (haemagglutination tests, or HAT) demonstrated the ability to detect antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain with a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 99% in blood samples taken from individuals with a PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection \u226528 days prior. The authors note that the HAT test for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/31\/a-haemagglutination-test-for-rapid-detection-of-antibodies-to-sars-cov-2\/\">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-8180","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\/8180","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=8180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8181,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions\/8181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8180"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}