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Generation of antibodies against COVID-19 virus for development of diagnostic tools

Li, M.; Jin, R.; Peng, Y.; Wang, C.; Ren, W.; Lv, F.; Gong, S.; Fang, F.; Wang, Q.; Li, J.; Shen, T.; Sun, H.; Zhou, L.; Cui, Y.; Song, H.; Sun, L.

2020-02-25 infectious diseases
10.1101/2020.02.20.20025999 medRxiv
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The COVID-19 China coronavirus started in Dec 2019 was challenged by the lack of accurate serological diagnostic tool for this deadly disease to quickly identify and isolate the infected patients. The generation of COVID-19-specific antibodies is essential for such tasks. Here we report that polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies were generated by immunizing animals with synthetic peptides corresponding to different areas of Nucleoprotein (N) of COVID-19. The specificities of the COVID-19 antibodies were assessed by Western Blot analysis against NPs from COVID-19, MERS and SARS. Antibodies were used for immunohistochemistry staining of the tissue sections from COVID-19 infected patient, as a potential diagnostic tool. A Sandwich ELISA kit was quickly assembled for quantitation of the virus/NP of COVID-19 concentrations in the vaccine preparations. Development of POCT is also aggressively undergoing.

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