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Evidence of false-positive results in a commercially available rotavirus assay in the vaccine era, Australia, 2011 to 2012
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsCorrespondence: S Lambertsblambert uq.edu.au
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Citation style for this article: . Evidence of false-positive results in a commercially available rotavirus assay in the vaccine era, Australia, 2011 to 2012. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(21):pii=20483. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.18.21.20483-en Received: 16 Apr 2013
Abstract
Concerns were raised about specificity of the VIKIA Rota-Adeno immunochromatographic kit. Only 28-37% of samples positive with the VIKIA kit could be confirmed using two real-time RT-PCR assays and three ELISA kits. On re-analysis of a subset of the positive samples, 86% remained positive with the VIKIA kit, however, 90% remained negative in the other assays. In a highly vaccinated population we found a high number of false-positive rotavirus tests with a widely-used commercial kit.
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