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ABSTRACT: Objective
Lateral flow assays (LFA) are sensitive for detecting antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 proteins within weeks after infection. This study tested samples from immunocompetent adults, and those receiving treatments for chronic inflammatory diseases (CID), before and after mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.Methods
We compared results obtained with the COVIBLOCK Covid-19 LFA to those obtained by anti-spike (S) ELISA.Results
The LFA detected anti-S antibodies in 29 of 29 (100%) of the immunocompetent and 110 of 126 (87.3%) of the CID participants after vaccination. Semiquantitative LFA scores were statistically significantly lower in samples from immunosuppressed participants, and were significantly correlated with anti-S antibody levels measured by ELISA.Conclusions
This simple LFA test is a practical alternative to laboratory-based assays for detecting anti-S antibodies after infection or vaccination. This type of test may be most useful for testing people in outpatient or resource-limited settings.
SUBMITTER: Greene SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9831968 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Greene Sarah E SE Huang Yuefang Y Kim Wooseob W Liebeskind Mariel J MJ Chandrasekaran Vinay V Liu Zhuoming Z Deepak Parakkal P Paley Michael A MA Lew Daphne D Yang Monica M Matloubian Mehrdad M Gensler Lianne S LS Nakamura Mary C MC O'Hallaran Jane A JA Presti Rachel M RM Whelan Sean P J SPJ Buchser William J WJ Kim Alfred H J AHJ Weil Gary J GJ
Journal of clinical virology plus 20230111 1
<h4>Objective</h4>Lateral flow assays (LFA) are sensitive for detecting antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 proteins within weeks after infection. This study tested samples from immunocompetent adults, and those receiving treatments for chronic inflammatory diseases (CID), before and after mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.<h4>Methods</h4>We compared results obtained with the COVIBLOCK Covid-19 LFA to those obtained by anti-spike (S) ELISA.<h4>Results</h4>The LFA detected anti-S antibodies in 29 of 29 (100%) of ...[more]