Evaluation of the bioMerieux VIDAS HIV Duo Quick and Anti-HCV assays for dried blood spot based serosurveillance.

ABSTRACT: Serosurveillance is central to monitoring our progress towards HIV and HCV elimination targets proposed for 2030. However, serosurveillance systems are ineffective without reliable serological assays for the detection of HIV and HCV antibodies. Assays should also be compatible with dried blood spot (DBS) samples to facilitate biological sample collection. The VIDAS HIV Duo Quick and Anti-HCV assays are sold as reagents strips and processed by the automated VIDAS benchtop immunoanalyser. While both assays have shown excellent performance in serum and plasma, performance data in DBS samples is lacking. In our study, we evaluate the performance of the VIDAS HIV Duo Quick and Anti-HCV assays in DBS (n = 725) collected during a cross-sectional serosurvey (the Transitions study). The VIDAS HIV D

SUBMITTER: Cholette F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9205869 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature