Today26 Nov 2021 14:25
Accurate antibody tests will become increasingly important in the management of the pandemic and vaccination programmes as a tool to monitor how many people have had the virus and how it is spreading.
They can also help determine how effective the vaccine is and to gauge population immunity as well as assessing new strains of the virus and their impact on vaccine performance.
However, existing antibody tests can be limited in the information they provide, and some are not suited to rapid mass deployment as they can be inaccurate and also detect other coronaviruses (for example, the common cold).
Now refer to the AZN RNS
Ruth March, SVP, Precision Medicine, AstraZeneca said: "The development of this serology ELISA by our team is another example of AstraZeneca's comprehensive response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This highly sensitive and specific blood test makes use of simple and convenient fingerstick sample collection that will be well suited to large scale deployment and has the potential to play an important role in antibody analyses in LARGE populations."
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