Dried blood spot specimens for SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing: A multi-site, multi-assay comparison

• François Cholette ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: François Cholette, Christine Mesa

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Christine Mesa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: François Cholette, Christine Mesa

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Angela Harris,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Hannah Ellis,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Karla Cachero,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Philip Lacap,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Yannick Galipeau,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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• Marc-André Langlois,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, The Centre for Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation (CI3), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4652-3029

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• Anne-Claude Gingras,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada

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• Cedric P. Yansouni,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

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• Jesse Papenburg,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, Division of Microbiology, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Optilab Montréal–McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4232-871X

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• Matthew P. Cheng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, Division of Microbiology, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Optilab Montréal–McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4867-2063

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• Pranesh Chakraborty,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Newborn Screening Ontario, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada

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• Derek R. Stein,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Manitoba Health, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Paul Van Caeseele,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Manitoba Health, Winnipeg, Canada, Department of Pediatrics & Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, Montréal, Canada

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• Sofia Bartlett,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Mel Krajden,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• David Goldfarb,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Allison McGeer,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, Montréal, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Carla Osiowy,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Catherine Hankins ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: catherine.hankins@mcgill.ca (CH); john.kim@canada.ca (JK)

  Affiliations COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, Montréal, Canada, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

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• Bruce Mazer,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

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• Michael Drebot,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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• John Kim ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: catherine.hankins@mcgill.ca (CH); john.kim@canada.ca (JK)

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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