COMPARISON OF 2 ENZYME IMMUNOASSAYS AND 2 LATEX AGGLUTINATION ASSAYS FOR DETECTION OF CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY

Authors
DOERN GV ROBBIE L MARRAMA L
Citation
Gv. Doern et al., COMPARISON OF 2 ENZYME IMMUNOASSAYS AND 2 LATEX AGGLUTINATION ASSAYS FOR DETECTION OF CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY, Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, 20(2), 1994, pp. 109-112
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,"Infectious Diseases
Journal title
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease → ACNP
ISSN journal
07328893
Volume
20
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
109 - 112
Database
ISI
SICI code
0732-8893(1994)20:2<109:CO2EIA>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
Two commercially available enzyme immunoassays for cytomegalovirus (CM V) immunoglobulin G (IgG), VIDAS and Diamedix, and two latex agglutina tion tests that detect both CMV IgG and IgM, CMV-Scan and CMV-Gen, wer e evaluated using 165 human serum specimens. Among these, 46.7% contai ned CMV-reactive antibody. The first three assays had sensitivities of 100%; the sensitivity of the CMV-Gen procedure was 98.7%. The specifi cities of the four tests were 100, 97.7, 97.3, and 93.2%, respectively .