Bagno Flávia F, Sérgio Sarah A R, Figueiredo Maria Marta, Godoi Lara C, Andrade Luis A F, Salazar Natália C, Soares Camila P, Aguiar Andressa, Almeida Flávia Jaqueline, da Silva Edimilson D, Ferreira Antônio G P, Durigon Edison Luiz, Gazzinelli Ricardo T, Teixeira Santuza M R, Fernandes Ana Paula S M, da Fonseca Flavio G
Centro de Tecnologia de Vacinas (CT Vacinas), BH-Tec, UFMG. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
J Clin Virol Plus. 2022 Aug 17:100103. doi: 10.1016/j.jcvp.2022.100103.
There is a massive demand to identify alternative methods to detect new cases of COVID-19 as well as to investigate the epidemiology of the disease. In many countries, importation of commercial kits poses a significant impact on their testing capacity and increases the costs for the public health system. We have developed an ELISA to detect IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 using a recombinant viral nucleocapsid (rN) protein expressed in . Using a total of 894 clinical samples we showed that the rN-ELISA was able to detect IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 with high sensitivity (97.5%) and specificity (96.3%) when compared to a commercial antibody test. After three external validation studies, we showed that the test accuracy was higher than 90%. The rN-ELISA IgG kit constitutes a convenient and specific method for the large-scale determination of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in human sera with high reliability.
迫切需要找到替代方法来检测新型冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19)新病例,并调查该疾病的流行病学情况。在许多国家,进口商业试剂盒对其检测能力产生重大影响,并增加了公共卫生系统的成本。我们开发了一种酶联免疫吸附测定(ELISA),使用在……中表达的重组病毒核衣壳(rN)蛋白来检测针对严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2(SARS-CoV-2)的免疫球蛋白G(IgG)抗体。使用总共894份临床样本,我们发现与商业抗体检测相比,rN-ELISA能够以高灵敏度(97.5%)和特异性(96.3%)检测针对SARS-CoV-2的IgG抗体。经过三项外部验证研究,我们发现检测准确率高于90%。rN-ELISA IgG试剂盒是一种方便、特异的方法,可用于大规模检测人血清中SARS-CoV-2抗体,具有很高的可靠性。