Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

N-protein presents early in blood, dried blood and saliva during asymptomatic and symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection

  • Dandan Shan,
  • Joseph M. Johnson,
  • Syrena C. Fernandes,
  • Hannah Suib,
  • Soyoon Hwang,
  • Danica Wuelfing,
  • Muriel Mendes,
  • Marcella Holdridge,
  • Elaine M. Burke,
  • Katie Beauregard,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Megan Cleary,
  • Samantha Xu,
  • Xiao Yao,
  • Purvish P. Patel,
  • Tatiana Plavina,
  • David H. Wilson,
  • Lei Chang,
  • Kim M. Kaiser,
  • Jacob Nattermann,
  • Susanne V. Schmidt,
  • Eicke Latz,
  • Kevin Hrusovsky,
  • Dawn Mattoon,
  • Andrew J. Ball

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22072-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Here the authors develop a single molecule array (Simoa) immunoassay for detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein in venous and dried capillary blood as well as saliva. The assay shows good performance in symptomatic, asymptomatic, and pre-symptomatic PCR+ individuals.