Harmonization of clinical interpretation of antinuclear antibody test results by solid phase assay and by indirect immunofluorescence through likelihood ratios

Affiliations

• ¹ Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: Xavier.Bossuyt@uzleuven.be.
• ² Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium; Centrum voor Medische Analyse, Herentals, Belgium.
• ³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Henri Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France.
• ⁴ Department of Rheumatology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁵ Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium; Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁶ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁷ Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• ⁸ Research and Development, Inova Diagnostics, San Diego, USA.
• ⁹ Labormedizinische Zentrum Dr Risch, Bern, Switzerland.