A systematic review and meta-analysis of the sensitivity of antibody tests for the laboratory confirmation of COVID-19

NA Makoah, T Tipih, MM Litabe, M Brink… - Future …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the utility of serological tests for the diagnosis of
COVID-19 during the first week of symptom onset in patients confirmed with the real-time RT …

A potential association between obesity and reduced effectiveness of COVID‐19 vaccine‐induced neutralizing humoral immunity

AA Faizo, FS Qashqari, SA El‐Kafrawy… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the adverse effects of obesity on host immunity, this study investigated the
effectiveness of COVID‐19 vaccines (BNT162b2, ChAdOx‐nCov‐2019, and mRNA‐1273) in …

Optimisation and Validation of a conventional ELISA and cut-offs for detecting and quantifying anti-SARS-CoV-2 Spike, RBD, and Nucleoprotein IgG, IgM, and IgA …

GK Oluka, P Namubiru, L Kato, V Ankunda… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
There is an urgent need for better immunoassays to measure antibody responses as part of
immune-surveillance activities and to profile immunological responses to emerging SARS …

A comprehensive antigen production and characterisation study for easy-to-implement, specific and quantitative SARS-CoV-2 serotests

M Klausberger, M Duerkop, H Haslacher… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Antibody tests are essential tools to investigate humoral immunity following
SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccination. While first-generation antibody tests have primarily …

Performance evaluation of lateral flow assays for coronavirus disease-19 serology

L Ochola, P Ogongo, S Mungai… - Clinics in laboratory …, 2022 - labmed.theclinics.com
The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19), caused by infection with the severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has undoubtedly been the most …

Evaluation of a pseudovirus neutralization assay for SARS-CoV-2 and correlation with live virus-based micro neutralization assay

AMK Tolah, SS Sohrab, KMK Tolah, AM Hassan… - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The unusual cases of pneumonia outbreak were reported from Wuhan city in late December
2019. Serological testing provides a powerful tool for the identification of prior infection and …

Facile and rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibody based on a noncompetitive fluorescence polarization immunoassay in human serum samples

K Takahashi, M Fukuyama, M Kasuya, A Imai… - Biosensors and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibody detection methods for viral infections have received broad attention due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, there remains an ever-increasing need to quantitatively …

Validation of multi-epitope peptides encapsulated in PLGA nanoparticles against influenza A virus

WT Heng, HX Lim, KO Tan, CL Poh - Pharmaceutical Research, 2023 - Springer
Background Influenza is a highly contagious respiratory disease which poses a serious
threat to public health globally, causing severe diseases in 3-5 million humans and resulting …

A reliable indirect ELISA protocol for detection of human antibodies directed to SARS-CoV-2 NP protein

AA Faizo, TA Alandijany, AT Abbas, SS Sohrab… - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
A few months ago, the availability of a reliable and cost-effective testing capacity for COVID-
19 was a concern for many countries. With the emergence and circulation of new SARS-CoV …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of COVID-19 antibodies among operating room and critical care staff at a tertiary teaching hospital: A cross-sectional study

SH Farsi, TA Alandijany, M Radwi, A Farsi… - Saudi medical …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives: To identify the prevalence of COVID-19 antibodies among operating room and
critical care staff. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 319 Healthcare …