Individual values of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies do not correspond between antigen-specific assays

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Autoimmunology and Biomarkers, Statens Serum institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ² Central Diagnostic Laboratory, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ³ Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medius Kliniken Kirchheim/Teck, University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Section Nephrology and Immunology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ⁵ Department of Rheumatology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁶ Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁷ Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁸ Clinical Department of General Internal Medicine, Research Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious and Inflammatory Disorders, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁹ Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium, Phone: +32 16 347009, Fax: +32 16 34 79 31.
• ¹¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ¹² Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.