Optimization and Stability Testing of Four Commercially Available Dried Blood Spot Devices for Estimating Measles and Rubella IgG Antibodies

Dried blood spot (DBS) collection offers various advantages over conventional methods of blood collection, especially when collecting and transporting samples for a serosurvey. Yet use of DBS requires additional processing steps in the laboratory that can add to variability in results.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ojas Kaduskar, Vaishali Bhatt, Christine Prosperi, Kyla Hayford, Alvira Z. Hasan, Gururaj Rao Deshpande, Bipin Tilekar, Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Nivedita Gupta, Manoj V. Murhekar, William J. Moss, Sanjay M. Mehendale, Lucky Sangal, Gajanan Sapkal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-08-01
Series:mSphere
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00490-21