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. 1984 Nov;20(5):972–976. doi: 10.1128/jcm.20.5.972-976.1984

Comparison of nonspecific reactivity in indirect and reverse immunoassays for measles and mumps immunoglobulin M antibodies.

H Tuokko
PMCID: PMC271486  PMID: 6392329

Abstract

Serum specimens collected from patients convalescing from acute measles or mumps infections, other viral infections, or rheumatoid arthritis and from blood donors were tested in indirect and reverse assays for measles and mumps immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies. All the samples from patients convalescing from acute mumps and measles infections gave positive IgM results in both tests. However, 6% of sera from patients recovering from other viral infections, 68.4% of sera from patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and 5.6% of sera from normal blood donors gave false-positive results by the indirect measles IgM enzyme immunoassay (EIA). By the indirect mumps IgM EIA, 9% of sera from other viral infections, 70.1% of sera from patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and 5.6% of sera from normal blood donors gave false-positive reactions. The reverse test system for measles IgM gave false-positive results in 1.5% of sera from the group with other viral infections, and the reverse mumps EIA gave false-positive results in 0.9% of the patients. Other sera groups did not react in either measles or mumps reverse IgM assays. The results indicated that although nonspecific reactions are frequent in indirect IgM tests for viral antibodies, such reactions are rarely encountered when reverse IgM EIA tests are employed.

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