Optimization and Stability Testing of Four Commercially Available Dried Blood Spot Devices for Estimating Measles and Rubella IgG Antibodies

Authors :: Ojas Kaduskar
Vaishali Bhatt
Christine Prosperi
Kyla Hayford
Alvira Z. Hasan
Gururaj Rao Deshpande
Bipin Tilekar
Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj
Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar
Nivedita Gupta
Manoj V. Murhekar
William J. Moss
Sanjay M. Mehendale
Lucky Sangal
Gajanan Sapkal
Source :: mSphere, Vol 6, Iss 4 (2021)
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: American Society for Microbiology, 2021.
Abstract: Dried blood spot (DBS) collection offers various advantages over conventional methods of blood collection, especially when collecting and transporting samples for a serosurvey. Yet use of DBS requires additional processing steps in the laboratory that can add to variability in results.

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