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How to Interpret Antibody Testing: Specificity and Sensitivity

Two important measures are used to determine how useful antibody test results are when making health care decisions: •Clinical sensitivity determines whether you have been previously infected with a virus and how likely it is that the test is accurately positive •Clinical specificity determines whether you have not been previously infected with a virus and how likely is it that the test is accurately negative Most doctors and lab professionals will use antibody tests with specificity rates of at least 99 percent. But determining whether an individual test result is accurate is still difficult. This is why it is important that people with experience, such as Penn Medicine Pathology and Laboratory Medicine specialists, are the ones interpreting antibody test results. Individual antibody test results also do not mean you are immune to COVID-19 or that you cannot pass the infection along to others. It’s also difficult to know what your individual result means in the larger context of your community, making it difficult to make the right decisions based on antibody testing alone. #PennMedicine