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. 2020 Mar 25;63(5):777–780. doi: 10.1007/s11427-020-1688-9

Detection of serum IgM and IgG for COVID-19 diagnosis

Ling Zhong 1,2,3,#, Junlan Chuan 1,2,#, Bo Gong 1,2,3,#, Ping Shuai 4, Yu Zhou 1,2,3, Yi Zhang 1,2,3, Zhilin Jiang 1,2,3, Dingding Zhang 1,2,3, Xiaoqi Liu 1,2,3, Shi Ma 1,2,3, Yi Huang 1, He Lin 1,2,3, Qingwei Wang 1,2,3, Lulin Huang 1,2,3, Dan Jiang 1,2,3, Fang Hao 1,2,3, Juan Tang 5, Chunqi Zheng 5, Hua Yu 1, Zhibin Wang 1, Qi Jiang 6, Tao Zeng 7, Mei Luo 7, Fanwei Zeng 8, Fanxin Zeng 8, Jianghai Liu 9, Junxi Tian 10, Yu Xu 10, Tengxiang Long 10, Kaiju Xu 11, Xingxiang Yang 11, Yuping Liu 4, Yi Shi 1,2,3,✉, Li Jiang 1,2,3,✉, Zhenglin Yang 1,2,3,✉
PMCID: PMC7140589  PMID: 32270436

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Acknowledgements

We thank all the participants and their families for participating in this study. This work was supported by the grants from Sichuan Science and Technology Program (2020YFS0014 and 2020YFS0558), the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019-I2M-5-032) and Technology & Science & Technology Bureau of Chengdu (2020-YF05-00060-SN and 2020-YF05-00075-SN).

Compliance and ethics The author(s) declare that they have no conflict of interest. This study was performed in accordance with the principles of the Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association. The protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of the Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital.

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Yi Shi, Email: shiyi1614@126.com.

Li Jiang, Email: jiang.li@hsc.utah.edu.

Zhenglin Yang, Email: zliny@yahoo.com.

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