An evaluation of the Ramco kit for serum ferritin assay
Dempster, W.S.; Knight, G.J.; Jacobs, P.
South African Medical Journal 56(26): 1132-1133
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0256-9574 PMID: 550454 Document Number: 149577
The determination of serum ferritin levels may be of diagnostic importance in medicine. To establish whether values obtained using a commercially available kit (Ramco) were adequate for this purpose, a comparison was undertaken using a two-site immunoradiometric assay that had been developed and standardized in our laboratories. Over the range 6 micrograms/l to greater than 2 000 micrograms/l there was a correlation coefficient between the two methods of 0,8284 (P less than 0.001). It is concluded that the Ramco kit is suitable for use in clinical practice.