COVID-19 antibody testing: From hype to immunological reality

CM Gray, J Peter, M Mendelson, S Madhi… - South African Medical …, 2020 - samj.org.za
The potential role for serological tests in the current COVID-19 pandemic has generated
very considerable recent interest across many sectors worldwide, inter alia pathologists …

The role of serological testing in the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak

ES Mayne, L Scott, B Semete, A Julsing… - South African Medical …, 2020 - samj.org.za
Antibody tests for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV2, have been developed both as rapid
diagnostic assays and for high-throughput formal serology platforms. Although these tests …

[HTML][HTML] Antibody tests for diagnosing COVID-19: how relevant are they?

MS Shey, BM Schmidt, CS Wiysonge - The Pan African Medical …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The current standards for detecting active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection are
molecular tests by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, using swabs from the …

[HTML][HTML] Update to COVID-19 serologic testing: FAQs and caveats

K Kadkhoda - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, 2022 - ccjm.org
As of early January 2022, almost 2 years after the first cases of Coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) appeared, a PubMed search for “COVID antibody” revealed more than 14,000 …

Population (antibody) testing for COVID-19—technical challenges, application and relevance, an English perspective

PAC Maple - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the UK, population virus or antibody testing using virus swabs, serum samples, blood
spots or oral fluids has been performed to a limited extent for several diseases including …

Serology for SARS-CoV-2: Apprehensions, opportunities, and the path forward

JE Bryant, AS Azman, MJ Ferrari, BF Arnold… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
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Evaluation of a COVID-19 IgM and IgG rapid test; an efficient tool for assessment of past exposure to SARS-CoV-2

T Hoffman, K Nissen, J Krambrich… - Infection ecology & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT COVID-19 is the most rapidly growing pandemic in modern time, and the need
for serological testing is most urgent. Although the diagnostics of acute patients by RT-PCR …

Clinical diagnostic performance evaluation of five immunoassays for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis in a real-life routine care setting

AI Akyala, JR Awayimbo, AC Ogo, NJ Chima… - Pan African Medical …, 2021 - ajol.info
While molecular techniques remain the gold standard for diagnosis of acute SARS-CoV-2
infection, serological tests have the unique potential to ascertain how much of the population …

[HTML][HTML] Serologic response to SARS-CoV-2 in an African population

KN Fai, TM Corine, LM Bebell, AB Mboringong… - Scientific African, 2021 - Elsevier
Official case counts suggest Africa has not seen the expected burden of COVID-19 as
predicted by international health agencies, and the proportion of asymptomatic patients …

Diagnosis of COVID-19: considerations, controversies and challenges in South Africa

K Dheda, S Jaumdally, M Davids, JW Chang… - Wits Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - journals.co.za
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 is a global pandemic that has resulted in over 1.5 million confirmed cases and …