Open AccessComparison of SARS-COV-2 antibody assays in PCR negative and PCR positive Turkish patients
Author(s) -
Ayşegül Yağcı,
Rabia Can Sarınoğlu,
Barış Can,
Hüseyin Bilgin,
Nuri Çağatay Cimşit,
Volkan Korten
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
turkish journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1303-6165
pISSN - 1300-0144
DOI - 10.3906/sag-2104-242
Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , serology , covid-19 , antibody , pandemic , virology , turkish , immunology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , outbreak , linguistics , philosophy
To the Editor, Serology may offer valuable information during COVID-19 pandemic; however, published papers mainly reported the results of symptomatic patients having positive RT-PCR on upper respiratory tract specimens [1]. More studies are needed to address whether asymptomatic patients, or patients with chest imaging compatible with COVID-19 but negative RT-PCR, have different antibody response that could influence assays performances. We wanted to share our data from Turkey where 4,323,596 COVID-19 cases were detected out of 44,087,628 PCR tests by April 20, 2021 but there are only a couple of published studies about serodiagnosis of the infection.