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2022 · Microbiology spectrum · open access

Development and Implementation of Dried Blood Spot-Based COVID-19 Serological Assays for Epidemiologic Studies

Wong et al.

The finding, in our words

Dried blood spots collected by fingerprick at home produced SARS-CoV-2 antibody results comparable to plasma or serum in ELISA and commercial assays, reliably detecting responses months after infection and tracking post-vaccination kinetics in a community survey across 12 cities. This demonstrates that self-collected DBS enable longitudinal serosurveillance without phlebotomy, supporting their use in decentralised diagnostics when venous sampling is impractical.

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Read the source ↗DOI 10.1128/spectrum.02471-21PubMed 35612315

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