Test for Past Infection: May 05, 2020

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
• Description:
  Antibody blood tests, also called antibody tests, check your blood by looking for antibodies, which show if you had a previous infection with the virus. Depending on when someone was infected and the timing of the test, the test may not find antibodies in someone with a current COVID-19 infection. Antibodies are proteins that help fight off infections. Antibody tests should not be used to diagnose someone as being currently sick with COVID-19. To see if you have a current infection, you need a viral test, which checks respiratory samples, such as a swab from inside your nose.
  
  How to get an antibody test -- CDC’s work in antibody testing.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Clinical Laboratory Techniques Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis COVID-19 Testing Diagnostic Tests, Routine Laboratories
• Series:
  Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7f629943555c33721ccad495e93bb5ebdd4b4c9e7ea4a4a8e848af33b191a9241a17871239c0a9f133a4aca58ccc7596915ccb97c7e7ecb3960230dbed2ffefa
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/87842/cdc_87842_DS1.pdf
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