For the development of a Point of Care IVD test kit for acute phase disease detection against a variety of bacterial and viral infections. Phase one includes 100 clinical diagnosed positive and 200 clinically "normal" serum and whole blood matched specimens for specificity and sensitivity determination for each marker. The positive samples must be IgM positive using any FDA cleared ELISA test kit. The negatives samples must be negative for IgM.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
300
The Plasma Source
Southampton, Pennsylvania, United States
IgM greater than 1xcut off value
Elisa System positive results are greater than 1 times the cutoff. Negative less than 1x cutoff. Prevalence of IGM in general mid-atlantic population is less than 10% of study population.
Time frame: Antibody value measured within seven days of specimen collection.
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