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. 1992 Apr;30(4):993–995. doi: 10.1128/jcm.30.4.993-995.1992

Detection of antibody to immunodeficiency viruses by dot immunobinding assay.

S S Kalter 1, R L Heberling 1, J D Barry 1, I K Kuramoto 1, P V Holland 1, K Sazama 1
PMCID: PMC265199  PMID: 1572988

Abstract

The dot immunobinding assay (DIA), a modified enzyme immunoassay (EIA), has been demonstrated to be a highly sensitive and specific assay for the detection of antibody to a number of viruses. Different laboratory procedures are available for detecting antibody to the immunodeficiency viruses; however, these procedures require a certain amount of sophisticated equipment and trained personnel. Further, commercial kits for detecting antibody to human immunodeficiency virus, as now available, are not easy to use in the nonlaboratory setting. The DIA, as described herein, may be formatted to test up to 30 serum samples and is designed to be used in the absence of laboratory equipment. To determine the effectiveness of the DIA as a test kit for the detection of HIV and human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) antibodies, the kit was compared with commercial EIA and Western blot (WB; immunoblot) kits. Testing approximately 1,000 human serum samples for HIV antibody by DIA and EIA revealed a total agreement of 98.1%, a specificity of 99.0%, and a sensitivity of 95.9%. For 804 serum samples tested (200 were tested independently in two laboratories), eight results were discrepant: four DIA negatives which were EIA borderline positive and four DIA positives which were EIA negative. Testing the eight discrepant sera by immunofluorescence assay and WB resulted in their being either negative or indeterminate. The four DIA positives were indeterminate by WB. Close agreement was obtained when the remaining sera were compared by DIA, EIA, and WB. Of interest was finding that the DIA results compared favorably with those obtained by WB. Twenty-six suspect HTLV-I-positive serum samples tested by DIA also gave results comparable to those obtained by EIA and WB.

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