Department of Medicine-DIMED, Medical School, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University-Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Clin Chem Lab Med. 2021 Apr 14;59(8):1444-1452. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2021-0313. Print 2021 Jul 27.
SARS-CoV-2 serology presents an important role in several aspects of COVID-19 pandemic. Immunoassays performances have to be accurately evaluated and correlated with neutralizing antibodies. We investigated the analytical and clinical performances of a SARS-CoV-2 RBD IgG assay, automated on a high throughput platform, and the correlation of the antibodies (Ab) levels with the plaque reduction neutralization (PRNT) Ab titers.
A series of 546 samples were evaluated by SARS-CoV-2 RBD IgG assay (Snibe diagnostics), including 171 negative and 168 positive SARS-CoV-2 subjects and a further group of 207 subjects of the COVID-19 family clusters follow-up cohort.
Assay imprecision ranged from 3.98 to 12.18% being satisfactory at low and medium levels; linearity was excellent in all the measurement range. Considering specimens collected after 14 days post symptoms onset, overall sensitivity and specificity were 99.0 and 92.5%, respectively. A total of 281 leftover samples results of the PRNT test were available. An elevated correlation was obtained between the SARS-CoV-2 RBD IgG assay and the PRNT titer at univariate (=0.689) and multivariate (=0.712) analyses.
SARS-CoV-2 S-RBD IgG assay shows satisfactory analytical and clinical performances, and a strong correlation with sera neutralizing activity.
SARS-CoV-2 血清学在 COVID-19 大流行的几个方面都具有重要作用。免疫测定的性能必须经过准确评估,并与中和抗体相关联。我们研究了一种 SARS-CoV-2 RBD IgG 测定的分析和临床性能,该测定在高通量平台上自动化进行,并将抗体(Ab)水平与蚀斑减少中和(PRNT)Ab 滴度相关联。
对一系列 546 个样本进行了 SARS-CoV-2 RBD IgG 测定(Snibe diagnostics),包括 171 个阴性和 168 个 SARS-CoV-2 阳性样本,以及进一步的 207 个 COVID-19 家庭集群随访队列的样本。
测定的不精密度范围为 3.98%至 12.18%,在低和中水平下令人满意;在所有测量范围内,线性度都很好。考虑到症状出现后 14 天采集的标本,总体敏感性和特异性分别为 99.0%和 92.5%。共有 281 个 PRNT 检测的剩余样本结果可用。在单变量(=0.689)和多变量(=0.712)分析中,SARS-CoV-2 RBD IgG 测定与 PRNT 滴度之间均获得了高度相关性。
SARS-CoV-2 S-RBD IgG 测定具有令人满意的分析和临床性能,与血清中和活性具有很强的相关性。