Detection of SARS-CoV-2 N-antigen in blood during acute COVID-19 provides a sensitive new marker and new testing alternatives

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementConsent: They have provided written informed consent for the use of their samples for research.
    IRB: Ethics approval was given by the French Ethics Committee CPP-lle-de-France 6 (ID RCB: 2020-A00256-33 and ID RCB: 2020-A00280-39) and the French National Data Protection Commission (approval #920102).
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Briefly, in each well of 96-wells microplates previously coated with anti-SARS-CoV-2 N-antibodies, 50 μl of a solution containing a biotinylated anti-SARS-CoV-2 N antibodies and 50 μl of sera were added.
    anti-SARS-CoV-2
    suggested: None
    anti-SARS-CoV-2 N
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid IgG: For a subset of 85 sera, corresponding to 80 patients (ICU patients: n = 21, ward patients: n = 36 and outpatients: n = 36), we performed a chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay detecting anti-N immunoglobulins G (Architect SARS-CoV-2 IG Assay, Abbott).
    Abbott
    suggested: (Abbott, RRID:SCR_010477)

    Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    A limitation of this first N-antigenemia evaluation for COVID-19 diagnosis is the high proportions of ICU and ward patients. N-antigenemia decrease seems to occur earlier in outpatients, but have to be confirmed in larger cohorts. This innovative marker opens new perspectives for diagnostic, such as rapid antigen blood test and combined ELISA assays, detecting both antigens and antibodies. This could provide a valuable new option for COVID-19 diagnosis, only requiring a blood draw, scalable in all clinical laboratories and high throughput analyzers.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:

    IdentifierStatusTitle
    NCT04262921RecruitingFrench COVID Cohort
    NCT04259892RecruitingViral Excretion in Contact Subjects at High/Moderate Risk of…
    NCT04259892RecruitingViral Excretion in Contact Subjects at High/Moderate Risk of…


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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