Meek, B;
Ekstrom, N;
Kantso, B;
Almond, R;
Findlow, J;
Gritzfeld, JF;
Jorgensen, CS;
... Tcherniaeva, I; + view all
(2019)
Multilaboratory Comparison of Pneumococcal Multiplex Immunoassays Used in lmmunosurveillance of Streptococcus pneumoniae across Europe.
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Abstract
Surveillance studies are required to estimate the impact of pneumococcal vaccination in both children and the elderly across Europe. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends use of enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) as standard methods for immune surveillance of pneumococcal antibodies. However, as levels of antibodies to multiple serotypes are monitored in thousands of samples, a need for a less laborious and more flexible method has evolved. Fluorescent-bead-based multiplex immunoassays (MIAs) are suitable for this purpose. An increasing number of public health and diagnostic laboratories use MIAs, although the method is not standardized and no international quality assessment scheme exists. The EU Pneumo Multiplex Assay Consortium was initiated in 2013 to advance harmonization of MIAs and to create an international quality assessment scheme. In a multilaboratory comparison organized by the consortium, agreement among nine laboratories that used their own optimized MIA was assessed on a panel of 15 reference sera for 13 pneumococcal serotypes with the new WHO standard 007sp. Agreement was assessed in terms of assay accuracy, reproducibility, repeatability, precision, and bias. The results indicate that the evaluated MIAs are robust and reproducible for measurement of vaccine-induced antibody responses. However, some serotype-specific variability in the results was observed in comparisons of polysaccharides from different sources and of different conjugation methods, especially for serotype 4. On the basis of the results, the consortium has contributed to the harmonization of MIA protocols to improve reliability of immune surveillance of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Multilaboratory Comparison of Pneumococcal Multiplex Immunoassays Used in lmmunosurveillance of Streptococcus pneumoniae across Europe |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1128/mSphere.00455-19 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00455-19 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Microbiology, IgG antibodies, Streptococcus pneumoniae, capsular polysaccharide, concordance, immunoserology, interlaboratory comparison, multiplex immunoassay, quantitative methods, serosurveillance, STANDARD REFERENCE SERUM, ANALYTICAL VARIABILITY, ANTIBODY UNITS, POLYSACCHARIDES, DISEASE, VACCINE, ASSAY, IGG, QUANTITATION, ASSIGNMENT |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Dept |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10090589 |
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