Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Exploring beyond clinical routine SARS-CoV-2 serology using MultiCoV-Ab to evaluate endemic coronavirus cross-reactivity

  • Matthias Becker,
  • Monika Strengert,
  • Daniel Junker,
  • Philipp D. Kaiser,
  • Tobias Kerrinnes,
  • Bjoern Traenkle,
  • Heiko Dinter,
  • Julia Häring,
  • Stéphane Ghozzi,
  • Anne Zeck,
  • Frank Weise,
  • Andreas Peter,
  • Sebastian Hörber,
  • Simon Fink,
  • Felix Ruoff,
  • Alex Dulovic,
  • Tamam Bakchoul,
  • Armin Baillot,
  • Stefan Lohse,
  • Markus Cornberg,
  • Thomas Illig,
  • Jens Gottlieb,
  • Sigrun Smola,
  • André Karch,
  • Klaus Berger,
  • Hans-Georg Rammensee,
  • Katja Schenke-Layland,
  • Annika Nelde,
  • Melanie Märklin,
  • Jonas S. Heitmann,
  • Juliane S. Walz,
  • Markus Templin,
  • Thomas O. Joos,
  • Ulrich Rothbauer,
  • Gérard Krause,
  • Nicole Schneiderhan-Marra

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-20973-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Serology is an important way to monitor SARS-CoV-2 infection in the population and support vaccine development. Here the authors develop a multiplex immunoassay including spike and nucleocapsid proteins of SARS-CoV-2 and the endemic human coronaviruses with high specificity and sensitivity.