Performance evaluation of five commercial assays in assessing seroprevalence of HEV antibodies among blood donors.

CONCLUSIONS: Due to discrepancies in the performance of various IgG and IgM assays, seroprevalence studies should be based on furher confirmatory testing for decisive conclusions to be reached.
PMID: 30051802 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - July 27, 2018 Category: Microbiology Authors: Al-Absi ES, Al-Sadeq DW, Younis MH, Yassine HM, Abdalla OM, Mesleh AG, Hadwan TA, Amimo JO, Thalib L, Nasrallah GK Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research