DES MOINES - One of the tools employed in the Iowa public health department's response to the COVID-19 pandemic is serology testing. Gov. Kim Reynolds makes frequent reference to serology testing ...

If you are looking for a single magical number to tell whether you can be more lax on Covid-19 precautions, sorry, but the level of antibodies in your blood is not going to provide it. Antibodies aren ...

In the absence of PCR testing, infectious disease experts and epidemiologists are anxiously awaiting serology results from the household contact and two healthcare workers who may have been infected ...

Autoantibody assays may have significant differences due to the heterogeneity of autoantibodies, including epitope specificity, isotype, and affinity/avidity. This makes it challenging for clinical ...

Maintaining consistent assay performance over time is critical for clinical laboratories. While assay performance characteristics may be clearly understood at the time of validation, variations can ...

Serology and C14-UBT are the most commonly used non-invasive tests of H. pylori infection. The diagnostic characteristics of the tests depend also on the prevalence of H. pylori infection in the ...

With COVID-19 case rates on the rise and the delta variant's highly contagious nature, doctors say people across California are increasingly curious about COVID tests. Doctor Nam Tran is the senior ...