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TORINO. The Piedmont Regional Health Department updated the list of private analysis laboratories authorized by the Region to carry out the activity. The table with the references of the individual structures is published on the Piedmont Region website at https://www.regione.piemonte.it/web/sites/default/files/media/documenti/2020-05/list_laboratori_diagnostici_privati_7_maggio_2020_bis .pdf
These laboratories can also be contacted privately to carry out, when the services of the individual structures contemplate it, any serological test, for which, in this case, the charges are borne by the citizen.
In particular, it should be remembered that the use of the serological test for specific immunoglobulins for SARS-CoV-2 is allowed to private citizens only for tests that the Ministry of Health considers reliable in its epidemiological result.
“No immunity license”
These serological tests, according to the same Ministry, “cannot, in the current state of technological evolution, replace the molecular test based on the identification of viral RNA from nasopharyngeal swabs”, nor provide any “license of immunity”, since ” The positive antibody test indicates whether the person has been infected with SARS-CoV-2 (if positive IgM: recent infection; if negative IgM and positive IgG: previous infection), but does not necessarily indicate if the antibodies are neutralizing, if a person is protected and for how long, and if the person has been cured. A negative antibody test can have several meanings: a person has not been infected with SARA-CoV-2, or has been very recently infected (less than 8- 10 days earlier) and you have not yet developed the antibody response to the virus, or you have been infected but the antibody titer you developed is, at the time of testing, below the detection level. tion of evidence ».
