title: Development of a fast solid-phase enzyme immunoassay for C-reactive protein.
abstract: A fast sandwich enzyme immunoassay has been developed for C-reactive protein (CRP). This method can be used for screening CRP concentration in large numbers of samples providing a non precipitation, non agglutination and non radioactive alternative for assessment of human CRP. Advantages over previously reported CRP sandwich assays include: assay time was reduced from 4 1/2 h to 45 min, incubations were made at room temperature instead of 37 degrees C and serum dilutions required were 100-400 fold instead of 10000-20000 fold. Correlations were good with both nephelometry and phosphorylethanolamine binding assay. The 45% false positives found with the slide-latex anti C-reactive protein method were reduced to 0% by the use of the described method.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Coll
mesh_terms: D002097:C-Reactive Protein / Q000032:analysis*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / Q000379:methods*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D002097:C-Reactive Protein