Dried blood spots are a valid alternative to venipuncture for COVID-19 antibody testing.
Sims MD, Podolsky RH, Childers KL, Higgins B, Trueman J, Homayouni R, Voss DR, Berkiw-Scenna N, Keil H, Kennedy RH, Maine GN.
Sims MD, et al.
J Immunol Methods. 2023 Feb;513:113420. doi: 10.1016/j.jim.2022.113420. Epub 2022 Dec 31.
J Immunol Methods. 2023.
PMID: 36596443
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Two broad antibody testing categories are point-of-care lateral flow immunoassays and semi-quantitative immunoassays performed in clinical laboratories, which typically require blood collected from a finger-stick and a standard venipuncture blood draw, respectively. ...We …
Two broad antibody testing categories are point-of-care lateral flow immunoassays and semi-quantitative immunoassays performed in cli …