Editorial and Executive Summary: IFCC Interim Guidelines on Clinical Laboratory testing during the COVID-19 PandemicGiuseppe Lippi, Andrea R. Horvath, and Khosrow Adeli Interferences in the measurement of circulating phosphate: a literature review Valentina Molinaris, Mario G. Bianchetti, Gregorio P. Milani, Sebastiano A.G. Lava, Roberto Della Bruna, Giacomo D. Simonetti, and Pietro B. 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Horvath, Khosrow Adeli, and Giuseppe Lippi IFCC Interim Guidelines on Serological Testing of Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 Mary Kathryn Bohn, Tze Ping Loh, Cheng-Bin Wang, Robert Mueller, David Koch, Sunil Sethi, William D. Rawlinson, Massimo Clementi, Rajiv Erasmus, Marc Leportier, Matthias Grimmler, KY Yuen, Nicasio Mancini, Gye Cheol Kwon, María Elizabeth Menezes, Maria-Magdalena Patru, Maurizio Gramegna, Krishna Singh, Osama Najjar, Maurizio Ferrari, Andrea R. Horvath, Giuseppe Lippi, Khosrow Adeli, and and the IFCC Taskforce on COVID-19 IFCC Interim Guidelines on Biochemical/Hematological Monitoring of COVID-19 Patients Simon Thompson, Mary Kathryn Bohn, Nicasio Mancini, Tze Ping Loh, Cheng-Bin Wang, Matthias Grimmler, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Robert Mueller, David Koch, Sunil Sethi, William D. Rawlinson, Massimo Clementi, Rajiv Erasmus, Marc Leportier, Gye Cheol Kwon, María Elizabeth Menezes, Maria-Magdalena Patru, Maurizio Gramegna, Krishna Singh, Osama Najjar, Maurizio Ferrari, Giuseppe Lippi, Khosrow Adeli, Andrea R. Horvath, and the IFCC Taskforce on COVID-19 Genotype/phenotype relationship in Gaucher disease patients. Novel mutation in glucocerebrosidase gene Esperanza Lepe-Balsalobre, José D. Santotoribio, Ramiro Nuñez-Vazquez, Salvador García-Morillo, Pilar Jiménez-Arriscado, Paula Hernández-Arévalo, Rocío Delarosa-Rodríguez, Juan M. Guerrero, and Hada C. Macher Programme for Harmonization to the International Scale in Latin America for BCR-ABL1 quantification in CML patients: findings and recommendations María Sol Ruiz, María Belén Sánchez, Yuly Masiel Vera Contreras, Evangelina Agrielo, Marta Alonso, María Eugenia Altuna, María Sol Anchordoqui, Mariana Asinari, María Elisa Bonetto, Mauricio Camargo, Isabel Giere, Javier González, Ana Cecilia Granda Alacote, Javier Guerra, Marina Gutiérrez, Cecilia Maldonado, Ricardo Makiya, Gonzalo Manrique, María Eugenia Monaco, Juan Carlos Rozo, Carlos Santamaría, Analía Seravalle, Olga Zea, María Noel Zubillaga, José Mordoh, Irene Larripa, and Michele Bianchini Biotin interference: evaluation of a new generation of electrochemiluminescent immunoassays for high-sensitive troponin T and thyroid-stimulating hormone testing Samy Mzougui, Julien Favresse, Reza Soleimani, Catherine Fillée, and Damien Gruson Validation of a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous determination of hydroxychloroquine and metabolites in human whole blood Donna Austin, Catharine John, Beverley J Hunt, and Rachel S. Carling The combined use of enzyme activity and metabolite assays as a strategy for newborn screening of mucopolysaccharidosis type I Giulia Polo, Daniela Gueraldi, Antonella Giuliani, Laura Rubert, Chiara Cazzorla, Leonardo Salviati, Antonio Marzollo, Alessandra Biffi, Alessandro P. Burlina, and Alberto B. Burlina Faecal haemoglobin distributions by sex, age, deprivation and geographical region: consequences for colorectal cancer screening strategies Gavin R.C. Clark, Judith A. Strachan, Alisson McPherson, Jayne Digby, Craig Mowat, Robert J.C. Steele, and Callum G. Fraser Glycophorin A-based exclusion of red blood cells for flow cytometric analysis of platelet glycoprotein expression in citrated whole blood Christina Berens, Johannes Oldenburg, Bernd Pötzsch, and Jens Müller Assignment of international normalized ratio to frozen and freeze-dried pooled plasmas Antonius M.H.P. van den Besselaar and Christa M. Cobbaert Stabilization patterns and variability of hs-CRP, NT-proBNP and ST2 during 1 year after acute coronary syndrome admission: results of the BIOMArCS study Victor J. van den Berg, Victor A.W.M. Umans, Milos Brankovic, Rohit M. Oemrawsingh, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Pim van der Harst, Imo E. Hoefer, Bas Kietselaer, Harry J.G.M. Crijns, Timo Lenderink, Anton J. Oude Ophuis, Ron H. van Schaik, Isabella Kardys, Eric Boersma, K. Martijn Akkerhuis, and for the BIOMArCS investigators SARS-CoV-2 serosurvey in health care workers of the Veneto Region Mario Plebani, Andrea Padoan, Ugo Fedeli, Elena Schievano, Elena Vecchiato, Giuseppe Lippi, Giuliana Lo Cascio, Stefano Porru, and Giorgio Palù Evaluation of three fully-automated SARS-CoV-2 antibody assays Sebastian Hörber, Jelena Soldo, Lasse Relker, Stefan Jürgens, Julia Guther, Silke Peter, Rainer Lehmann, and Andreas Peter Results of the first pilot external quality assessment (EQA) scheme for anti-SARS-CoV2-antibody testing Verena Haselmann, Mustafa K. Özçürümez, Frank Klawonn, Volker Ast, Catharina Gerhards, Romy Eichner, Victor Costina, Gerhard Dobler, Wolf-Jochen Geilenkeuser, Roman Wölfel, and Michael Neumaier Frequency of serological non-responders and false-negative RT-PCR results in SARS-CoV-2 testing: a population-based study Rita Christiane Baron, Lorenz Risch, Myriam Weber, Sarah Thiel, Kirsten Grossmann, Nadia Wohlwend, Thomas Lung, Dorothea Hillmann, Michael Ritzler, Susanna Bigler, Konrad Egli, Francesca Ferrara, Thomas Bodmer, Mauro Imperiali, Sonja Heer, Harald Renz, Lukas Flatz, Philipp Kohler, Pietro Vernazza, Christian R. Kahlert, Matthias Paprotny, and Martin Risch A biological profile for diagnosis and outcome of COVID-19 patients Mehdi Khourssaji, Virginie Chapelle, Anton Evenepoel, Leila Belkhir, Jean Cyr Yombi, Marie-Astrid van Dievoet, Pascale Saussoy, Emmanuel Coche, Catherine Fillée, Stefan N. Constantinescu, Hector Rodriguez-Villalobos, Jean-Philippe Defour, and Damien Gruson Can routine laboratory variables predict survival in COVID-19? An artificial neural network-based approach Alejandro Santos-Lozano, Fernando Calvo-Boyero, Ana López-Jiménez, Cecilia Cueto-Felgueroso, Adrián Castillo-García, Pedro L. Valenzuela, Joaquín Arenas, Alejandro Lucia, Miguel A. Martín, and COVID-19 Hospital ’12 Octubre’ Clinical Biochemisty Study Group SARS-CoV-2 antibody performances: we need better criteria Claudio Galli and Mario Plebani Upper respiratory samples pooling for screening SARS-CoV-2 infection: ready for the prime time? Giuseppe Lippi Validation of the Corona-Score for rapid identification of SARS-CoV-2 infections in patients seeking emergency department care in the United States Giuseppe Lippi, Brandon Michael Henry, Jonathan Hoehn, Stefanie Benoit, and Justin Benoit “Stay home stay safe?” Systemic inflammation in subjects undergoing routine hematology tests during the lockdown period of COVID-19 Francesco Tona, Mario Plebani, Dario Gregori, Giovanni Carretta, Giulia Lorenzoni, Daniele Donato, and Sabino Iliceto 52th National Congress of the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology (SIBioC – Laboratory Medicine) |