Abstracts tagged "Enzyme-Linked Immunoabsorbant Assays (ELISA) and systemic sclerosis"

Abstract Number: 2694 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Performance of Anti-Scl-70 Antibody Testing By Multiple-Bead, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, and Immunodiffusion in a University Setting
Kate Homer¹, Jeffery Warren², Dmitry Karayev³, Puja P. Khanna⁴, Amber Young⁵, Vivek Nagaraja⁵, Allan L. Metzger⁶ and Dinesh Khanna⁵, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology Division, Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³RDL Reference Laboratory, Santa Monica, CA, ⁴University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁶RDL Reference Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: The gold standard for anti-Scl-70 antibody testing in systemic sclerosis (SSc) uses immunodiffusion (ID) techniques, but enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and multi-bead technology are…