Comparative Study of the Standard Fluorescent Antibody to Membrane Antigen (FAMA) Assay and a Flow Cytometry-Adapted FAMA Assay To Assess Immunity to Varicella-Zoster Virus
- LAFER, M. M.
- WECKX, L. Y.
- MORAES-PINTO, M. I. de
- GARRETSON, A.
- STEINBERG, S. P.
- GERSHON, A. A.
- LARUSSA, P. S.
Publication date
January 2011
DOI Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY Journal
issn:1556-6811Abstract
A flow cytometry-adapted fluorescent antibody to membrane antigen (FAMA) assay to detect IgG antibodies against varicella-zoster virus (VZV) was developed and tested in 62 serum samples, showing 90.32% accuracy obtained from a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve with a 0.9125 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.829 to 1.00) area below the curve compared to the result with standard FAMA.Brazilian Ministry of Education`s CAPES[0108-08-1
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