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Biotin interference in immunoassays: water under the bridge?

  • Loris Wauthier ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Julien Cabo ORCID logo , Christine Eucher , Catherine Rosseels , Marc Elsen and Julien Favresse

Corresponding author: Loris Wauthier, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinique Saint-Luc Bouge, Rue Saint-Luc 8, 5004, Bouge, Namur, Belgium, E-mail:

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Not applicable.

  5. Ethical approval: Not applicable.

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Supplementary Material

This article contains supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2023-0242).


Received: 2023-03-06
Accepted: 2023-03-28
Published Online: 2023-04-11
Published in Print: 2023-09-26

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