Complexity of serological assays and misunderstandings of WHO International Units

Ivana Knezevic; Giada Mattiuzzo; Mark Page; Micha Nuebling; Elwyn Griffiths; Philip Minor

doi:10.1515/cclm-2022-0660

Published by De Gruyter July 20, 2022

Complexity of serological assays and misunderstandings of WHO International Units

Ivana Knezevic , Giada Mattiuzzo , Mark Page , Micha Nuebling , Elwyn Griffiths and Philip Minor

From the journal Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM)

https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2022-0660

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Keywords: Covid-19; international standard; International Unit; SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulin; WHO

Corresponding author: Ivana Knezevic, MD, PhD, Department of Health Product Policy and Standards, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland, Phone: +41 22 791 3136, E-mail: knezevici@who.int

Research funding: None declared.
Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
Informed consent: Not applicable.
Ethical approval: Not applicable.

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1. Hansen, YBL, Furuta, K, Devaraj, S, Yilmaz, FM, Nordin, G. Misleading nomenclature of units of WHO materials used for standardization of SARS CoV-2 serology. Clin Chem Lab Med 2022;60:e151–2. https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2022-0082.Search in Google Scholar PubMed

Received: 2022-07-11

Accepted: 2022-07-11

Published Online: 2022-07-20

Published in Print: 2022-09-27

Complexity of serological assays and misunderstandings of WHO International Units

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