Abstract:
:Many serologic tests are now available for measuring severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 antibodies to evaluate potential protective immunity and for seroprevalence studies. We describe an approach to standardizing positivity thresholds and quantitative values for different assays that uses z-scores to enable rapid and efficient comparison of serologic test performance.
journal_name
Emerg Infect Disjournal_title
Emerging infectious diseasesauthors
Das MK,Chaudhary A,Bryan A,Wener MH,Fink SL,Morishima Cdoi
10.3201/eid2610.202632subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-10-01 00:00:00pages
2501-2503issue
10eissn
1080-6040issn
1080-6059journal_volume
26pub_type
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