Serological markers of SARS-CoV-2 infection; anti-nucleocapsid antibody positivity may not be the ideal marker of natural infection in vaccinated individuals
J Infect. 2021 Oct;83(4):e9-e10.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.08.012.
Epub 2021 Aug 9.
1 Department of GU Medicine and Infectious Diseases (GUIDE), St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: nallen@stjames.ie.
2 European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden; Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), Dublin, Ireland.
3 Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Murcia School of Medicine, Murcia, Spain.
4 Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), Dublin, Ireland.
5 Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), Dublin, Ireland; Health Research Institute and MACSI, University of Limerick, Ireland; MISA and NCPE, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
6 Department of Microbiology, University Hospital Galway, Ireland.
7 Department of GU Medicine and Infectious Diseases (GUIDE), St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
8 Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Galway, Ireland.
9 Department of Immunology, St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.