Comparison between a commercial ELISA, Rubazyme, and hemolysis-in-gel test for determination of rubella antibodies |
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| Authors: | L Grillner M Forsgren E Nordenfelt |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Section of Virology, Karolinska Hospital, Sweden;2. Department of Virology, Central Microbiological Laboratory of the Stockholm County, Stockholm, Sweden;3. Department of Clinical Virology, Malmö General Hospital, University of Lund, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | A commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, Rubazyme, was compared with the hemolysis-in-gel (HIG) test for antibodies to rubella in 826 sera. The results were in agreement for 99.4% of the 725 sera tested for immunity. However, the Rubazyme assay was no more efficient that either the hemagglutination-inhibition or HIG test in discriminating between sera with low levels of antibody and negative sera. Thus, it was concluded that the HIG test is the method of choice for immunity testing because of the low cost and simplicity. Rubazyme may be of value to confirm equivocal HIG results. |
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| Keywords: | rubella immunity hemolysis-in-gel Rubazyme ELISA |
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