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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 35, 464-466, Copyright © 1989 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Rheumatoid factors determined by fluorescence immunoassay: comparison with qualitative and quantitative methods

AB Carpenter and CD Bartkowiak
Division of Clinical Immunopathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 15213-2583.

Fluorescence immunoassay (FIA), a relatively new technique for measuring rheumatoid factors (RF), is automated, quantitative, and calibrated against the Centers for Disease Control reference material for RF. We studied the FIA method in relation to a panel of RF methods, both qualitative [latex (LA) and sheep cell agglutination (SSCA)], and quantitative [nephelometry and enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA)]. Regression analysis revealed a highly significant correlation between FIA and either LA (r = 0.90) or nephelometry (r = 0.87). The correlation between FIA and either SSCA (r = 0.62) or ELISA (r = 0.67) was less strong. FIA had the highest sensitivity (91%) of all these methods; the specificity was 86%. FIA provides an accurate, sensitive, and specific measure of RF, and is a good alternative for laboratories wanting to replace titer methods with automated laboratory analysis.


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