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Laurence M. Galanti, Juliette Dell'Omo, Danielle Vanbeckbergen, Pierre Dubois, Pierre L. Masson, César L. Cambiaso

Particle Counting Immunoassay for Urinary Cotinine. Comparison with Chromatography, Enzyme-linked Immunoassay and Fluorescence Polarization Immunoassay

Urinary cotinine was measured according to its inhibitory activity on the agglutination of cotinine-coated latex particles by anti-cotinine antibodies, the agglutination being measured by optical counting of the remaining non-agglutinated particles (particle counting, PaC). The detection limit was 0.03 ?g/ml and the practical range extended from 0.03 to 3.9 ?g/ml. The correlation results of 320 urine samples with those of high pressure liquid chromatography, enzyme-linked (Coti-Tracq EIA, Serex Inc., Maywood, NJ, USA), and fluorescence polarization immunoassay (TDX instrument, Abbott, Abbott Park, IL, USA) were r = 0.90, r = 0.69, r = 0.87, respectively, whereas the correlation coefficients between the assays other than particle counting ranged from 0.62 to 0.88. PaC does not require any separation step and can thus be easily automated.

Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1434-6621
Volume: 37, 07/1999
Pages: 729 - 734

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