Communications Medicine (Mar 2023)

Evaluation and deployment of isotype-specific salivary antibody assays for detecting previous SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adults

  • Amy C. Thomas,
  • Elizabeth Oliver,
  • Holly E. Baum,
  • Kapil Gupta,
  • Kathryn L. Shelley,
  • Anna E. Long,
  • Hayley E. Jones,
  • Joyce Smith,
  • Benjamin Hitchings,
  • Natalie di Bartolo,
  • Kate Vasileiou,
  • Fruzsina Rabi,
  • Hanin Alamir,
  • Malak Eghleilib,
  • Ore Francis,
  • Jennifer Oliver,
  • Begonia Morales-Aza,
  • Ulrike Obst,
  • Debbie Shattock,
  • Rachael Barr,
  • Lucy Collingwood,
  • Kaltun Duale,
  • Niall Grace,
  • Guillaume Gonnage Livera,
  • Lindsay Bishop,
  • Harriet Downing,
  • Fernanda Rodrigues,
  • Nicholas Timpson,
  • Caroline L. Relton,
  • Ashley Toye,
  • Derek N. Woolfson,
  • Imre Berger,
  • Anu Goenka,
  • Andrew D. Davidson,
  • Kathleen M. Gillespie,
  • Alistair J. K. Williams,
  • Mick Bailey,
  • Ellen Brooks-Pollock,
  • Adam Finn,
  • Alice Halliday,
  • the CoMMinS Study Team

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-023-00264-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Thomas et al. test 6 ELISAs detecting IgA and IgG antibodies to whole SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, to its receptor binding domain region and to nucleocapsid protein in saliva. Across 20 household outbreaks, antibody responses are heterogeneous, but a reliable indicator of recent infection.