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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 28, 1370-1374, Copyright © 1982 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Homogeneous enzyme immunoassay for tobramycin evaluated and compared with a radioimmunoassay

J Woo, MA Longley and DC Cannon

We evaluated a commercially available homogeneous enzyme immunoassay (EMIT, Syva Co.) for tobramycin against a reference radioimmunoassay (RIA) method. Between-assay precision (CV) was 2.9% at 6.2 mg/L and 3.0% for values in the range of 1.0-7.6 mg/L. Accuracy based on a recovery experiment (1.0-13.0 mg/L) yielded an analytical recovery of 88-112%. A correlation study with 75 sera from patients on tobramycin therapy showed that EMIT = 0.984 RIA - 0.0808, r = 0.993. Neither the EMIT nor the RIA procedure was affected by the presence of gentamicin, amikacin, and vancomycin. Absorbance data from the EMIT system calculated with the conventional RIA logit-log algorithm correlate well with results generated by the Syva data-handling system (logit-log = 1.077 Syva - 0.318, r = 0.998). A reagent stability study indicated that the EMIT reagents, once reconstituted, remain stable for at least 17 days when stored at refrigerated temperatures, or 11 days if stored at room temperature, thus enabling frequent "stat" assays without the need to prepare a calibration curve each time.




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