Acknowledgments
We thank Ingrid Zegers and Evanthia Monogioudi (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Geel, Belgium) for providing the reference materials and for helpful discussions.
Research funding: None declared.
Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
Competing interests: XB has received speaker fees from Thermo Fisher Scientific and Inova, has been a consultant for Thermo Fisher Scientific and Inova and has received research support from Thermo Fisher Scientific. JD has received speaker fees from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Euroimmun, and Inova. BH has received a speaker fee from Orgentec, EC has received lecture fees from Bio-Rad Lab, Medipan/Generic Assays, Inova Diagnostics, Orgentec and Thermo Fisher. JR has been a consultant for Thermo Fisher Scientific. WF has received speaker fees from Thermo Fisher Scientific. MLH has received speaker fees from Thermo Fisher Scientific and Inova, has been a consultant for Thermo Fisher Scientific and Inova. MM is employed by Inova Diagnostics, WS received personal fees from Euroimmun, NO received personal fees from Thermo Fisher Scientific, FH and UL are employed by Orgentec, DR received personal fees from Medipan and Generic Assays, EB and RW are employed by BioRad. PV is a senior clinical investigator of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders. WF has received speaker fees from Thermo Fisher and is president of the Schweizerischer Verband der Diagnostikindustrie (SVDI).
Ethical approval: Research involving human subjects complied with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 2013).
Data availability: Data are available upon request to the corresponding author.
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