An international survey on anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) testing in daily clinical practice

Affiliations

• ¹ Central Diagnostic Laboratory, Maastricht University Medical Center, P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ² Medical Immunology, Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ³ Quality of Medical Laboratories, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical Immunology/Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
• ⁵ Department of Immunology, UF Autoimmunity, Hospices Civils de Lyon, CHLS, Pierre-Benite, France.
• ⁶ Department of Internal Medicine/Rheumatology unit, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ⁷ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• ⁸ UK NEQAS Immunology, Immunochemistry and Allergy, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Immunology, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Microbiology Institute, San Carlo Borromeo Hospital, Milan, Italy - on behalf of the Italian Forum on Autoimmune Disease Research (FIRMA).
• ¹¹ Immunopathology and Autoimmunity Department, Centro de Medicina Laboratorial Germano de Sousa, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ¹² Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
• ¹³ Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel.