Comparison of the diagnostic performance with whole blood and plasma of four rapid antibody tests for SARS-CoV-2

Clin Chem Lab Med. 2020 Sep 25;58(10):e197-e199. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2020-0817.

Bram Decru¹, Jan Van Elslande¹, Matthias Weemaes¹, Els Houben¹, Ine Empsen¹, Emmanuel André^{1

2}, Marc Van Ranst^{1

3}, Katrien Lagrou^{1

2}, Pieter Vermeersch^{1

4}

¹ Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine and National Reference Center for Respiratory Pathogens, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
² Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
³ Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology (Rega Institute), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Department of cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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Keywords: COVID-19; immunoassay; point-of-care testing; sensitivity and specificity.

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