Abstract

We evaluated newly developed surrogate virus neutralization tests (sVNT) for detecting neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) against the receptor binding domain of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). VERI-Q SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibody Detection ELISA Kit (MiCo BioMed, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea, hereafter, “eCoV-CN”) is an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay-based sVNT, and VERI-Q SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibody Rapid Test Kit (MiCo BioMed, hereafter, “rCoV-RN”) is a point-of-care lateral-flow immunochromatography test with auto-scanner. A total of 411 serum samples were evaluated. Both evaluations used a 50% plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT50) as the gold standard. Compared with PRNT50, the eCoV-CN showed 98.7% positive percent agreement (PPA), 96.8% negative percent agreement (NPA), 97.4% total percent agreement (TPA), with kappa values of 0.942. The rCoV-RN showed 98.7% PPA, 97.4% NPA, 97.8% TPA, and kappa values of 0.951, comparing to PRNT50. Neither assay indicated cross-reactivity for other pathogens, and the signal indexes were statistically significantly correlated to the PRNT50 titer. The two evaluated sVNTs show comparable performances to the PRNT50 with the advantages of technical simplicity, speed, and do not require cell culture facilities.

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Title
Performance evaluation of newly developed surrogate virus neutralization tests for detecting neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2
Author
Kweon, Oh Joo 1 ; Bae, Joon-Yong 2 ; Lim, Yong Kwan 1 ; Choi, Yoojeong 1 ; Lee, Sohyun 2 ; Park, Man-Seong 2 ; Suh, In Bum 3 ; Kim, Hana 3 ; Jee, Young Sam 3 ; Lee, Mi-Kyung 1 

 Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (GRID:grid.254224.7) (ISNI:0000 0001 0789 9563) 
 Korea University, Department of Microbiology, Institute for Viral Diseases, Vaccine Innovation Center, College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (GRID:grid.222754.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0840 2678) 
 Kangwon National University, Department of Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, Chuncheon-si, Republic of Korea (GRID:grid.412010.6) (ISNI:0000 0001 0707 9039) 
Pages
4961
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2791456159
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2023. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.