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Performance of two commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kits using recombinant glycoprotein G2 antigen for detection of herpes simplex virus type 2 specific antibodies.

Reddy SM, Balakrishnan P, Uma S, Thyagarajan SP, Solomon S

YRG CARE, Centre for AIDS Research and Education, VHS, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, India.

For 93 stored serum samples tested by HerpeSelect2 and the Euroimmun enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of herpes simplex virus type 2-specific immunoglobulin G antibodies, the concordance of positive and negative results was 100%. Moreover, all the results that were equivocal by HerpeSelect2 (negative by Euroimmun) were confirmed as being negative by a Western blot assay.

Published 8 February 2005 in Clin Diagn Lab Immunol, 12(2): 359-60.
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