Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of a new dengue IgA capture assay (Platelia Dengue IgA Capture, Bio-Rad) for dengue infection detection.

• Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Sophie De Decker, Muriel Vray, Viridiana Sistek, Bhety Labeau, Antoine Enfissi, Dominique Rousset, Séverine Matheus
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Pasteur
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003596; https://doaj.org/article/84cf4e503e6642bab8d5d16c2b334abf

Considering the short lifetime of IgA antibodies in serum and the key advantages of antibody detection ELISAs in terms of sensitivity and specificity, Bio-Rad has just developed a new ELISA test based on the detection of specific anti-dengue IgA. This study has been carried out to assess the perform...