Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19: Serologic Testing.
Mary K HaydenIbrahim K El MikatiKimberly E HansonJanet A EnglundRomney M HumphriesFrancesca LeeMark LoebDaniel J MorganRobin PatelOmar Al Ta'aniJamil NazzalShahad IqneibiJustin Z AmarinShahnaz SultanYngve Falck-YtterRebecca L MorganM Hassan MuradAdarsh BhimrajReem A MustafaPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2024)
The high seroprevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 worldwide limits the utility of detecting anti-SARS CoV-2 antibody. The certainty of available evidence supporting the use of serology for diagnosis was graded as very low to low. Future studies should use serologic assays calibrated to a common reference standard.